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Roman
or
Romans
may refer to:
- A thing or person of or from the city of
Rome
, Italy
- Ancient Rome
(8th century BC ? 5th century AD)
- Byzantine Empire
(330/476/629 to 1453), the Eastern Roman Empire
- Romaioi
(Ρωμα?οι), Greek-speaking, Orthodox population of the Eastern Roman Empire dating to Late Antiquity
- Romaioi
(Ρωμιο?), Greek-speaking, Orthodox population of the Rum-milet in the Ottoman Empire, or Greek-speaking Orthodox people today
- Romanae or the
Greco-Romans
from Aetolia Acarnania that speak Romanesci
- Holy Roman Empire
(c. 900 to 1806), a medieval state in Central Europe
- Roman, Bulgaria
, a town and a municipality in Vratsa Province
- Romans-sur-Isere
, in the Drome
departement
of France
- Roman, Romania
, a city in Neam? county
- Romans, Ain
, a town in France
- Roman, Eure
, France
- Romans, Deux-Sevres
, France
- Romans d'Isonzo
, a town in Italy
- Roman roads
- Roman Valley, Nova Scotia
- Saint Roman, Monaco
- The word for
Novel
in many European languages.
- Nouveau roman
(lit. "new novel"), a type of French novel of the 1950s
- Bildungsroman
(lit. "formation novel"), German for a coming-of-age story
- Kunstlerroman
(lit. "artist's novel"), German for a story of an artist's growth to maturity
- Romance (heroic literature)
, a genre of Medieval French literature
- Ar-Rum
, the 30th book in the Qu'ran, is sometimes translated as
The Romans
- Roman a clef
, a novel about real life, overlaid with a facade of fiction