Aventinus may refer to: Places: * Aventinus, Latin name of

Abensberg Abensberg () is a town in the Lower Bavarian Districts of Germany, district of Kelheim (district), Kelheim, in Bavaria, Germany, lying around southwest of Regensburg, east of Ingolstadt, northwest of Landshut and north of Munich. It is situa ...

, Germany *

Aventine Hill The Aventine Hill (; ; ) is one of the Seven Hills on which ancient Rome was built. It belongs to Ripa, the modern twelfth ''rione'', or ward, of Rome. Location and boundaries The Aventine Hill is the southernmost of Rome's seven hills. I ...

, named after Aventinus, king of Alba and Latium Persons: *

Aventinus (mythology) Aventinus was a son of Hercules and the priestess Rhea mentioned in Virgil's ''Aeneid'', Book vii. 656, as an ally of Mezentius and enemy of Aeneas (Dryden's translation): Maurus Servius Honoratus, Servius This passage speaks of an Aventinus, ...

, son of Hercules and Rhea *

Aventinus of Alba Longa Aventinus (said to have reigned 854-817 BC), one of the mythical kings of Alba Longa, who was buried on the Aventine Hill later named after him. He is said to have reigned thirty-seven years, and to have been succeeded by Procas, the father of ...

, descendant of Aeneas, king of the Latins (future Rome site) *

Saint Aventinus Troyes () is a commune and the capital of the department of Aube in the Grand Est region of north-central France. It is located on the Seine river about south-east of Paris. Troyes is situated within the Champagne wine region and is near t ...

(d. c 537), disciple of St. Loup *

Aventinus of Tours Aventinus was a hermit and friend of Thomas Becket. Living the life of a hermit in Tours, France, before being ordained a deacon by Thomas Becket, and subsequently accompanied him to the Synod of Tours in 1163. After the martyrdom of Thomas Bec ...

(d. 1180), hermit and saint *

Johannes Aventinus Johann Georg Turmair (or Thurmayr) (4 July 1477 – 9 January 1534), known by the pen name Johannes Aventinus (Latin for "John of Abensberg") or Aventin, was a Bavarian Renaissance humanist historian and philologist. He authored the 152 ...

, Bavarian historian and philologist Others: * Aventinus (beer), a wheat doppelbock brewed by G. Schneider & Sohn, in Bavaria, Germany

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