Portus
Portus (Latin: "port") was the name or part of the name of several places in the Roman Empire:
- the port facility at the mouth of the Tiber, which was expanded in the 1st century, see Portus Romae .
- a settlement on the site of the later Pforzheim .
- Portus Divinus, today Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria.
- two cities on the coast of the province of Gallia Narbonensis , both called Portus Veneris.
Portus is the name of the following people:
- Aemilius Portus (also: Emilio Porto; * 1550, † 1614 or 1615), Italian scholar
- Carolus Portus (also: Karl Portz, Carolus Pretzel; * around 1485, † 1549), figure of the Southwest German Reformation history
- Franciscus Portus (1511–1581), philologist
- Manuel Tapia Portus (1835–1915), Chilean painter, see Manuel Tapia
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