The Forum was the public space in the middle of a Roman city. Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC Modelled on the Roman Forum and Imperial fora in Rome itself, they are to be found in Italy (often forming the piazza of the modern town) and throughout the former Roman empire, with examples at:

• Lucca, now Piazza San Michele
• Verona, now Piazza delle Erbe
• Roman Forum, Philippi, at Philippi
• Roman Forum (Mérida), at Mérida, Spain
• Roman Forum (Pompeii), at Pompeii, Italy

In new Roman towns, the Forum was usually located at, or just off of, the intersection of the main north-south and east-west streets (the Cardo and Decumanus). This page refers to the main forum in the center of Rome See Imperial forums or Other forums in Rome (below for other forums in Rome and The Imperial Fora consist of a series of monumental fora (public squares constructed in Rome over a period of one and half centuries between 46 Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest For the Brazilian footballer see Wilson da Silva Piazza For the American baseball player see Mike Piazza For the coupé car The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial Lucca is a city in Tuscany, northern central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plain near (but not on the Ligurian Sea Verona is a city and provincial capital in Veneto, Northern Italy. Piazza delle Erbe is a square in Verona, Italy. It once was home to the town's Roman forum during the time of the Roman Empire. Philippi (in Greek / Philippoi) was a city in eastern Macedonia, in northern Ancient Greece, founded by Philip II in 356 Mérida is the capital of the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain. Pompeii is a ruined and partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples and Caserta in the Italian region of Campania, in In Ancient Roman City planning, a cardo or cardus was a north-south-oriented street in cities military camps and coloniae Sometimes called In Roman city planning, a decumanus was an east-west-oriented road in a Roman city Castra (military camp or colonia.

Related forms

• Agora
• Piazza
• Plaza
• Town square
• Civic center

Structures usually placed on the Forum

• Basilica
• Roman temple

See also

• Amphitheatre
• Greek Hippodrome
• Roman Circus
• Roman theatre (structure)

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