Ostia Antica

Ostia Antica is the modern name given to the ancient Roman city of Ostia. It became the port city of Rome located at the mouth of the and is near modern , 25 km southwest of .
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: ancient Roman city and colony
  • Also known as: “Ancient Ostia” and “Ostia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Basilica of Santa Aurea and Rocca di Ostia.

Church
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The is a church situated in the Ostia Antica district of , . Ostia became an episcopal see as early as the 3rd century AD. The present-day church, completed in 1483, is the cathedral of the suburbicarian diocese of Ostia.

Castle
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is a castle.

Theater building
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is a theater building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bagnoletto and Isola Sacra.

Village
is an urban area and quarter of the Municipio X of the . It is part of the Z. zone. XXXV Ostia Antica. It borders on its north-west with , north east with Dragona, on the south east with Saline di Ostia and Via dei Romagnoli.

Suburb
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is a suburb, which is situated 4 km west of Ostia Antica.

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is in , , close to Rome's major airport of . This article covers both the archaeological site Antica at the south-western end of Rome's district with the same name, and the nearby beach area Lido di .

Ostia Antica

Latitude
41.76791° or 41° 46′ 5″ north
Longitude
12.30831° or 12° 18′ 30″ east
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IT SIT
Open location code
8FHJQ895+58
Open­Street­Map ID
node 291910300
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
8378691
Wiki­data ID
Q1012797
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Waray—“Ostia Antica” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ostia Antica”
  • Albanian: “Ostia Antica”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ὠστία”
  • Arabic: “أوستيا أنتيكا”
  • Arabic: “أوستيا”
  • Armenian: “Օստիա Անտիկա”
  • Asturian: “Ostia Antica”
  • Asturian: “Ostia”
  • Basque: “Ostia”
  • Belarusian: “Остыя-Антыка”
  • Bulgarian: “Ostia Antica”
  • Bulgarian: “Остия Антика”
  • Catalan: “Ostia Antica”
  • Catalan: “Ostia”
  • Catalan: “Òstia”
  • Chinese: “古奥斯提亚”
  • Chinese: “古奥斯提亚港”
  • Chinese: “古奧斯提亞港”
  • Chinese: “奥斯提亚港”
  • Chinese: “奥斯蒂亚港”
  • Chinese: “奧斯提亞安提卡”
  • Croatian: “Ostia”
  • Czech: “Ostia Antica”
  • Dutch: “Ostia Antica”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوستيا انتيكا”
  • Esperanto: “Ostia Antica”
  • Esperanto: “Ostia”
  • Esperanto: “Ostio”
  • Estonian: “Ostia Antica”
  • Finnish: “Ostia Antica”
  • Finnish: “Ostia”
  • French: “Ostie”
  • Galician: “Ostia Antica”
  • Georgian: “ოსტია-ანტიკა”
  • German: “Ostia Antica”
  • Greek: “Όστια Αντίκα”
  • Hebrew: “אוסטיה”
  • Hungarian: “Ostia Antica”
  • Indonesian: “Ostia Antica”
  • Irish: “Ostia”
  • Italian: “Ostia Antica”
  • Italian: “Ostia”
  • Japanese: “オスティア・アンティカ”
  • Japanese: “オスティア”
  • Kazakh: “Остия Антика”
  • Korean: “오스티아 안티카”
  • Latin: “Ostia”
  • Neapolitan: “Ostia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ostia Antica”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ostia”
  • Norwegian: “Ostia Antica”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ostia”
  • Persian: “استیا آنتیکا”
  • Polish: “Ostia Antica”
  • Polish: “Ostia”
  • Portuguese: “Ostia Antica”
  • Portuguese: “Ostia”
  • Portuguese: “Óstia”
  • Romanian: “Ostia”
  • Russian: “Остия Антика”
  • Russian: “Остия-Антика”
  • Sardinian: “Ostia Antiga”
  • Serbian: “Ostija”
  • Serbian: “Остиа”
  • Serbian: “Остија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ostia Antica”
  • Slovak: “Ostia Antica”
  • Slovak: “Ostia”
  • Slovenian: “Ostia Antica”
  • Spanish: “Ostia Antica”
  • Spanish: “Ostia”
  • Swedish: “Ostia Antica”
  • Swedish: “Ostia”
  • Tagalog: “Ostia Antica”
  • Turkish: “Ostia Antica”
  • Ukrainian: “Остія Антика”
  • Urdu: “اوستیا”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ostia Antica”
  • “Ostia”

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