Milliarium Aureum
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The Miliarium Aureum (Template:IPA-la, golden milestone) was a monument, probably of gilded bronze, erected by the Emperor Caesar Augustus near the temple of Saturn in the central Forum of Ancient Rome. All roads were considered to begin from this monument and all distances in the Roman Empire were measured relative to that point.
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See also
- Kilometre Zero
- Milion, an equivalent monument in Ancient Constantinople
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