Micronations/List of already existing micronations/Nova Roma

thumb|The flag of Nova Roma, based on the colours and symbols of the Roman Empire Nova Roma is an internationalPalacios, Juan José: "Corporate citizenship and social responsibility in a globalized world". Citizenship Studies 8(4):383-402. Routledge, 2004Danese, Roberto/Bacianini, Andrea/Torino, Alessio: Weni, widi, wici: tra 'volumen" e byte. p. 133. Guaraldi, 2003" Roman revivalist and reconstructionist organizationStrmiska, Michael: Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, pp. 335-36. ABC-CLIO, 2005 created in 1998 by Joseph Bloch and William Bradford, (Marcus Cassius Iulianus and Flavius Vedius Germanicus the "Patres Patriae")http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Pater_Patriae_(Nova_Roma) later incorporated in Maine as a non-profit organization with an educational and religious mission.https://icrs.informe.org/nei-sos-icrs/ICRS?CorpSumm=20010268ND Interactive Corporative Services Information on Nova Roma Maine Department of the Secretary of State, Bureau of Corporations, Elections, and Commissions 2007-11-27 Nova Roma claims to promote "the restoration of classical Roman religion, culture, and virtues" and "shared Roman ideals".Dixon, Suzanne: Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, page 64. Routledge, 2007Trinkle, D. A./Merriman, S. A: The history highway: a 21st century guide to Internet resources, p. 464. M.E. Sharpe, 2006 Reported to provide online resources about Roman culture, Latin, ancient Roman costuming and reenactment guidelines,Burgan, Michael: Empire of Ancient Rome, p. 122. Infobase Publishing, 2004http://casls-nflrc.blogspot.com/2011/11/nova-roma-organization-dedicated-to.html Nova Roma: Organization Dedicated to Ancient Roman Culture Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS), University of Oregon 2011-12-05 Nova Roma aims to be more than a community of reenactors or history study group. Strimska, Davy, Adler, Gallagher-Ashcraft,Eugene V. Gallagher, W. Michael Ashcraft: Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America: Metaphysical, New Age, and neopagan movements. p. 220. Greenwood Press, 2006 and recently ChryssidesGeorge D. Chryssides, Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements (2011, 2nd ed.) refer to it as a polytheistic reconstructionist community. Because it has a structure based on the ancient Roman Republic,Auffarth, Chr./Bernard, J./Mohr, H.: Metzler Lexikon Religion: Gegenwart - Alltag - Medien, pp. 211-12. Metzler, 2002 with a senate, magistrates and laws enacted by vote of the comitia,Danese, Roberto/Bacianini, Andrea/Torino, Alessio: Weni, widi, wici: tra 'volumen" e byte. p. 134. Guaraldi, 2003" and with its own coinage,Sestertius signumAmerican Numismatic Association: The Numismatist, page 19. American Numismatic Association, 2003 and because the Nova Roma Wiki states that the group self-identifies as a "sovereign nation", some outside observersCaporaso, Giovanni: Cambiare Identitá.: É possibile, ecco le Prove, Offshore World Inc., 2006Vobruba, Georg: Grenzsoziologie: die politische Strukturierung des Raumes, p. 210. VS Verlag, 2006 classify it as a micronation. Roman religion Nova Roma has adoptedAdler, Margot: Drawing down the moon: witches, Druids, goddess-worshippers, and other pagans in America, p. 549. Penguin Books, 2006McColman, Carl: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Paganism, pages 71 and 347. Alpha Books, 2002 the ancient Roman religion as its state cult, but also maintains the freedom of religion of its citizens. As a polytheistic reconstructionist practice, the religio Romana or cultus deorum Romanorum (Latin designations used by Nova Roma adherents when referring to their religion) reportedly attracts people especially of military background.http://wildhunt.org/2008/07/pagan-soldier-killed-due-to-shoddy.html Pagan Soldier Killed Due to Shoddy Equipment? The Wild Hunt (Patheos, Inc.) 2011-12-13 Religious Studies scholar Michael York noted that traditional Roman way of thinking, Roman philosophy provides the moral code for Nova Romans in their New Roman belief system.York, Michael: Pagan Ethics: Paganism as a World Religion, p. 396. Springer, 2015 Both the domestic religious traditions and the so-called state religion (sacra publica) are represented in the practices of Nova Roma,Davy, Barbara Jane: Introduction to Pagan Studies, pp. 156, 163, 233. Rowman Altamira, 2007 including the restorationStrmiska, Michael: Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, p. 335. ABC-CLIO, 2005 of the ancient priestly collegia, including the offices of pontifex and Vestal Virgin,http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Roman_religion and the honoring of the full cycle of Roman holidays throughout the year.Joyce Higginbotham, River Higginbotham: ChristoPaganism: An Inclusive Path, p. 230. Llewellyn Worldwide, 2009 According to the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, at the time of Christmas, Nova Romans celebrate the Roman holiday Saturnalia.http://www.religioustolerance.org/xmasconfover.htm The Christmas wars / December dilemma Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance 2011-12-13http://www.religioustolerance.org/xmas_conflict1.htm Celebrations by various faiths near year end Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance 2011-12-13http://www.religioustolerance.org/xmas_conflict5.htm Conflicts at Christmas time: What is the original "reason for the season" Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance 2011-12-13http://www.religioustolerance.org/xmas_other.htm Annual secular and religious celebrations near Christmas time Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance 2011-12-13 In 2006 Margot Adler noted the organization's plan to restore a Magna Mater shrine in Rome. Adler Margot Margot Adler Drawing down the moon: witches, Druids, goddess-worshippers, and other pagans in America https://books.google.com/books?id=Jpp4AAAAMAAJ 2011-12-18 1979 2006 Penguin Books 978-0-14-303819-1 549 [...] Nova Roma is currently raising money to restore a shrine of Magna Mater in Rome. Live events, conventions and reenactments thumb|300px|right|Nova Romans performing a Roman religious ceremony in Aquincum (Budapest), 2008. Nova Roma holds its own local and international conventions and regularly participates with its affiliated reenactment groupsVescia, Monique: Battle Reenactments, p. 38. The Rosen Publishing Group, 2015 in such history festivals and public events as the Festival of Ancient Heritage http://www.visitsvishtov.com/2009/en_reenactors.html The second Festival of Ancient Heritage in Svishtov Council of Tourism - Svishtov 2009-09-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20120522005512/http://www.visitsvishtov.com/2009/en_reenactors.html 2012-05-22 dead in Svishtov, Bulgaria, the Roman Market Dayhttp://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-55171966.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121023110822/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-55171966.html dead 2012-10-23 GLADIATORS TO BATTLE ON ROMAN MARKET DAY Portland Press Herald 2002-08-12http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79773849.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121023110830/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79773849.html dead 2012-10-23 Great Caesar's ghost ... ; A celebration of ancient Roman culture takes place this weekend in Hollis. Portland Press Herald 2003-09-11http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-99075840.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121023110840/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-99075840.html dead 2012-10-23 Roman days, Roman nights ; Gladiators, armor and other displays are a few highlights of Wells' annual Roman Market Days Portland Press Herald 2004-09-16 in Wells Harbor Park, Maine and Forum Fulvii in Italy, Ludi Savarienses Historical Carnival, the Aquincum Floralia Spring Festivalhttp://www.museum.hu/museum/event_hu.php?IDE=18850&ID=6 Budapesti Történeti Múzeum - Aquincumi Múzeum - FLORALIA Kultúra az Interneten Alapítvány 2009-05-01https://ng.hu/kultura/2009/05/21/programajanlo_floralia_romai_tavaszunnep_aquincumban/ Programajánló: Floralia – Római tavaszünnep Aquincumban National Geographic (Hungary) 2011-12-05 http://www.aquincum.hu/floralia2010magyar.pdf AQUINCUMI JÁTÉKOK 2010 Museum of Aquincum 2011-12-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20120426010555/http://www.aquincum.hu/floralia2010magyar.pdf 2012-04-26 dead in Hungary, or the Natale di Roma (the historical festival of the birthday of Rome) in Rome, Italy,https://www.facebook.com/RomeFoundationAnniversary/posts/gruppo-storico-romano-romapopvlares-vindelicenses-germaniagruppo-storico-publio-/2030910807124871/ Participants in the Natale di Roma procession Gruppo Storico Romano 2019-01-03 where Nova Roma celebrated its twentieth anniversary. Cultural competitions and games Among the cultural activities of Nova Roma, competitions and games associated with various Roman festivals have an important place. They can include a wide range of various programs from humorous online games up to serious art-competitions like the Certamen Petronianum,http://www.novaroma.org/certamen/index.htm Certamen Petronianum Nova Roma, Inc. 2011-11-17http://guide.supereva.it/latino/interventi/2005/05/210475.shtml Il CERTAMEN PETRONIANUM, un nuovo concorso per i latinisti SuperEva 2011-11-17 a literary contest of historical novel writing, where the jury was composed of notables including Colleen McCullough, author of many Roman-themed best-selling novels, and T. P. Wiseman, university professor of Roman history and former vice-president of the British Academy, or the second edition of the same competition, where the jury was Jo Walton, World Fantasy Award-winning novelist and poet.http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Certamen_Petronianum_II Certamen Petronianum II Nova Roma, Inc. 2019-01-03 Historical contexts Revival of things Roman and their co-option for symbolic importance have a long history. Nova Roma (in Latin, literally "New Rome") in its deliberate revival of grandiose remnants of the past thus parallels and echoes other New Romes such as: the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire as a surviving embodiment of Roman ideals based on Constantinople (sometimes chartacterised as "New Rome" or the "Second Rome") after the decline of the Roman imperium in the West.For example: A History of Rome Under the Emperors Mommsen Theodor Theodor Mommsen 978-0-415-20647-1 Routledge 1999 https://books.google.com/books?id=TEcLoormeuQC 2011-12-16 Routledge Key Guides 381 Barbara Demandt, Alexander Demandt, Thomas E. J. Wiedemann The result of Constantinople's founding was the end of a national basis for the Empire [...] Milan and Ravenna had been unable to compete with Rome, though they were court residences, but Nova Roma could. the doctrine of the Third Rome as justification for imperial Muscovite and Russian ambitions from the 15th century onwardsNote for example Kantorowicz Ernst Hartwig Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz The King's two bodies: a study in mediaeval political theology https://books.google.com/books?id=RKYPxN0SLdYC 2011-12-16 7 1957 Princeton University Press 978-0-691-01704-4 83 Thus it happened that 'Rome' migrated from incarnation to incarnation, wandering first to Constantinople and later to Moscow, the third Rome, but also to Aachen where Charlemagne built a 'Lateran' and apparently planned to establish the Roma futura. [...] Constantinople and Aachen and others claimed to be each a nova Roma[...] Mussolini's attempted construction of a Mediterranean-based New Roman Empire (compare Imperial Italy) in the early 20th century Neville Peter Mussolini https://books.google.com/books?id=ol6T-Ut_JdgC 2011-12-16 Historical Biographies Series 2004 Routledge 978-0-415-24989-8 118 Mussolini made immense efforts to portray an image of Italian greatness, and the memory of Ancient Rome was constantly traded on in the régime's propaganda. Thus the normal handshake [...] was replaced by the 'Roman Salute' and the Mediterranean became 'our sea'. [...] Some streams in Fascism demanded spiritual revival based on the concept of a 'New Rome'. Notes 30em References American Religious Identification Survey," by The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (pdf) McColman, Carl. 2002. The Complete Idiot's Guide (R) to Paganism, Alpha Books. 0-02-864266-X Dennis A. Trinkle, Scott A. Merriman. M.E. Sharpe, 2002. 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