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It is probable that the name 'Tiber' is pre-Latin, like the Roman name of Tibur (modern Tivoli). A mythic king Tiberinus, ninth in the legendary king-list of Alba Longa, was said to have drowned in the Albula river, which was subsequently renamed the Tiber. The myth explained a memory of an earlier, probably pre-Indo-European, name for the river, 'white' with sediment. Legend says that Rome's founder, Romulus, and his twin brother Remus were abandoned on its waters, where they were rescued by a she-wolf. See founding of Rome.
The Tiber has been an important river in trade and commerce since the days of the Punic Wars, during which the harbor at Ostia became a key naval base. As the Ostia harbor silted up, a new road, the via Portuense, was built at the end of the 1st century CE, to connect Rome with the new Imperial port, Fiumicinio, leaving the city by Porta Portese ('the port gate').
The Tiber receives another important Roman stream, the Anio, and has an island (Isola Tiberina) in the center of Rome, between Trastevere and the ancient center. The ford at the island was probably the most ancient settlement of the city.
Popularly called flavus, "the blonde river", the Tiber is heavily charged with sediment but does not form a proportionable delta, owing to a strong north-flowing sea current close to the shore, to the steep shelving of the coast, and to slow tectonic subsidence. The coastline has advanced at each mouth about 3 km (2 miles) since Roman times, leaving the remains of ancient Ostia inland. A century ago, the rate of advance at Fiumicino was estimated at 4 m (13 ft) per year.
The arm which reaches the sea at Fiumicino is a canal, which was dug in the reign of the Emperor Claudius and improved by TrajanMarcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus ( September 18, 53 August 9, 117), Roman Emperor ( 98 117), commonly called Trajan was the second of the so-called " five good emperors" of the Roman Empire. Under his rule, the empire reached its greatest territorial extent.. It silted up during the Middle Ages enough to be useless for barges, but was reopened for navigation by Pope Paul VPaul V ne Camillo Borghese (Rome, September 17, 1550 January 28, 1621) was Pope from May 16, 1605 until his death. He was born as Camillo Borghese into the noble Borghese family of Siena which had recently fled to Rome, and ROMANUS appears in mostof his i in 1612.
Ancient Romans connected the river with a sewer system (the Cloaca MaximaThe Cloaca Maxima was one of the world's earliest sewage systems. Constructed in ancient Rome in order to drain local marshes and remove the waste of one of the world's most populous cities, it carried effluent to the River Tiber, which ran beside the cit) and with an underground net of tunnels and other channels, to bring its water into the middle of the town. The modern stone embankments were begun in 1876.
Floods of the Tiber have affected the course of history. In modern times, famous floods occurred in 1598, 1870 and 1900.
Benito Mussolinifascist state through the use of propaganda, total control of the media and disassembly of the working democratic government. Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini ( July 29, 1883 April 28, 1945) ruled Italy as a dictator from 1922 to 1943. He created a fascis, born in Romagna, adjusted the boundary between TuscanyTuscany ( Italian Toscana is a region in central Italy, bordering on Latium to the south, Umbria to the east, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria to the north, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. It is often regarded as among the most beautiful parts of Italy. and Emilia-RomagnaEmilia-Romagna is an administrative region of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. It forms a rough triangle, bounded on the East by the Adriatic Sea, on the North by the Po river and on the South by the Appennine rang, so that the springs of the Tiber would lie in Romagna. By the limpid spring was erected an antique Roman column, inscribed QUI NASCE IL TEVERE SACRO AI DESTINI DI ROMA ("Here is born the Tiber, sacred to the destinies of Rome") Tiberium, a fictional life form from the Command and Conquer series of computer games, is thought to be named after the Tiber river. However, some sources dispute that.
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