id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6701 Mediolanum - Wikipedia .html text/html 2493 427 61 Mediolanum, the ancient city where Milan now stands, was originally an Insubrian city, but afterwards became an important Roman city in northern Italy. During the Principate the population was 40,000 in AD 200; when the city became capital of the Western Roman Empire under emperor Maximian (r. In 286, Diocletian moved the capital of the Western Roman Empire from Rome to Mediolanum. In general, the Late Empire encouraged the development of the applied arts in Mediolanum, with ivory and silver work being common in public building projects. Some of the monuments of the Roman Mediolanum still to be seen in Milan: ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6701.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6701.txt