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pre-Roman

British  

adjective

  1. of or relating to the period before the founding of ancient Rome

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Celtic culture of the pre-Roman Iron Age in Western and Central Europe has left numerous traces to this day, not least in the form of enormous burial mounds and spectacular archaeological artifacts.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024

He mostly divided his time between his birthplace and Brescia, a pre-Roman city 75 miles east, with sojourns on to Venice.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2023

Catalin Draghici, a historian and coordinator of Historia Renascita, a group that organizes reenactments from pre-Roman and Roman times in Romania, described the festival near Resca as a “practical history lesson.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2022

The Etruscans were an early pre-Roman civilization that lasted until 27 B.C.

From Fox News • Oct. 17, 2021

Indeed it is believed that the champlev� process of excavating hollows for enamel on metal in various flowing and artistic designs of symbolic character was developed in pre-Roman Britain.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

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