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To them it was known as the "Amphitheatrum Flavium", which is Latin for "Flavian Amphitheater". They also gave it the nickname "Colosseum" because of the colossal statue of the emperor Nero which stood in the square before it. But Flavian Amphitheater is it's proper name.

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