1) Destroyed by Attila in AD 452 2) Destroyed city 3) World Heritage Site in Italy 
formerly a city of the Roman Empire and a patriarchate of the Roman Catholic Church; it is now a village in the Friuli–Venezia Giulia region in ... [5 related articles]
archaic or obsolete terms > Places: The city of Aquileia was a major Roman metropolis at the head of the Adriatic Sea, half-way between present-day Venice and Trieste.
an ancient Roman city at the northern end of the Adriatic: founded in 181 b.c.; destroyed by Attila in a.d. 452.