Portus

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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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