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  Caelian Hill - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Caelian Hill (Latin Collis Caelius, Italian Celio) is one of the famous Seven Hills of Rome.
Under reign of Tullus Hostilius, the entire population of Alba Longa was forcibly resettled on the Caelian Hill.
The Caelian is also the site of Basilica of St. John Lateran, the Cathedral of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Caelian_Hill   (238 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Seven hills of Rome
The now-famous Vatican Hill (Latin Collis Vaticanus) is northwest of the Tiber and is not one of the Seven Hills of Rome.
Likewise, the Pincian Hill (Latin Mons Pincius), to the north, and the Janiculum Hill (Latin Ianiculum), to the west, are not counted among the traditional Seven Hills.
The now-famous Vatican Hill (Collis Vaticanus) is west of the Tiber and is not one of the Seven Hills of Rome.
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 Caelian: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
The Caelian may be called the region of barracks...I. The Ruins of the Caelian Hill, Regio I, Porta Capena 320...
North of the Caelian is the Esquiline, a large hill consisting...
...Capitoline to the northwest and the Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, and Aventine in an outlying north-southwest curve.
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 Detail Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Mons Aventinus——The Aventine Hill was roughly parallel to the Caelian Hill in the southern sections of the city.
It contained a hill and a wider expanse of territory to the east, the Campus Viminalis.
Later, the hill became one of the building sites for those foreign deities that were not allowed to be honored in the pantheon of the Roman gods or the city.
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 Basic Rome City Topography:ALRItkwRom101BasicTopo.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Viminal Hill (Viminalis = Viminale) The Viminal is a smaller ridge between the Quirinal Hill and the Esquiline Hill.
Caelian Hill (Caelius = Celio) The Caelian Hill is the southernmost of the four large spurs.
Pincian Hill (Pincius) The Pincian Hill is to the north of the Quirinal Hill, overlooking the Campus Martius.
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 Caelian Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Caelian Hill (Latin Collis Caelius, Italian Celio) is one of the famous Seven Hills of Rome.
Under reign of Tullus Hostilius, the entire population of Alba Longa was forcibly resettled on the Caelian Hill.
The Caelian is also the site of Basilica of St. John Lateran, the Cathedral of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope.
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 Hotel Celio Rome - Attractions - Caelian Hill Rome
Also referred to as “The Celio,” Caelian Hill is the southern-most of the great seven hills of Rome.
This hill features two high points—Larger Caelian (Caelian Major) and Smaller Caelian (Caelian Minor)—and is divided into two main sections by the Via Claudia: the lower eastern slopes and the west.
Most impressive, however, is the massive aqueduct, which traverses the hill and carries fresh water into the heart of Rome.
www.easytobook.com /en/rome-hotels/hotel-celio-rome/attractions/caelian-hill-rome   (234 words)

  
 Seven hills of Rome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The now-famous Vatican Hill (Latin Collis Vaticanus) is northwest of the Tiber and is not one of the Seven Hills of Rome.
Likewise, the Pincian Hill (Latin Mons Pincius), to the north, and the Janiculum (Latin Ianiculum), to the west, are not counted among the traditional Seven Hills.
Of the Seven Hills of current Rome, five (Aventine, Caelian, Esquiline, Quirinal, and Viminal hills) are populated with monuments, buildings and parks; the Capitoline now hosts the Municipality of Rome; and the Palatine is an archaeological area.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_hills   (461 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Founding of Rome
The area around the Tiber river was particularly advantageous and also offered notable strategical resources, as the river was a natural border on one side, while the hills could provide a safe defensive position on the other side.
Moreover, road traffic could be controlled, since Rome was at the intersection of the principal roads to the sea coming from Sabine (in the northeast) and Etruria (to the northwest).
Although recent studies suggest that the Quirinal hill was very important in ancient times, the first hill to be inhabited seems to have been the Palatine (therefore confirming the legend), which is also at the center of ancient Rome.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/fo/Founding_of_Rome?title=Roman_kings   (1868 words)

  
 The Seven Hills of Rome, Rome (Photo Archive)
The Aventine Hill is to the south and the last of the seven hill.
The Pincian Hill is to the north of the Quirinal Hill, overlooking the Campus Martius.
The Vatican Hill is a parallel to the Janiculum, further north.
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 Collis Caelius
Atop the Caelian hill, directly across a narrow valley from the Palatine Hill, the neighborhood was focused on its great Temple of Claudius [dedicated to the deified Emperor Claudius) and the temple courts that surrounded it.
The Caelian is the most south-easterly of the Seven Hills of Rome and lies south of the Esquiline.
The Caelian served as the headquarters and barracks for several of the military units stationed in Rome, including the peregrini and the Frumentarii, the vigiles and the equites singulares (the mounted bodyguard of the emperor).
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 Collis Caelius
Atop the Caelian hill, directly across a narrow valley from the Palatine Hill, the neighborhood was focused on its great Temple of Claudius [dedicated to the deified Emperor Claudius) and the temple courts that surrounded it.
The Caelian is the most south-easterly of the Seven Hills of Rome and lies south of the Esquiline.
The Caelian served as the headquarters and barracks for several of the military units stationed in Rome, including the peregrini and the Frumentarii, the vigiles and the equites singulares (the mounted bodyguard of the emperor).
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 Regiones - Respublica Septimontiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Beginning from this to the south of the Caelian Hill, it runs the track of the Aurelian walls in the continental city.
It includes the valley between the Esquiline and the Viminal hills, the popular area of the Subura (the Roman suburbs) and the Velian Hill (the hill between the Palatine and the Oppian.
VIII Forum Romanum- This is the central region, containing the Capitoline Hill, the valley between the Palatine and the Capitoline hills (where the Forum Magnum is located), and the area between Velia and the Palatine up to the Temple of Venus and Rome in the continental city.
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 St. Augustine of Canterbury
Nothing is known of his youth except that he was probably a Roman of the better class, and that early in life he become a monk in the famous monastery of St. Andrew erected by St. Gregory out of his own patrimony on the Cælian Hill.
It was thus amid the religious intimacies of the Benedictine Rule and in the bracing atmosphere of a recent foundation that the character of the future missionary was formed.
He was buried, in true Roman fashion, outside the walls of the Kentish capital in a grave dug by the side of the great Roman road which then ran from Deal to Canterbury over St. Martin's Hill and near the unfinished abbey church which he had begun in honour of Sts.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/augustine_of_canterbury,saint.html   (2867 words)

  
 Chapter Reign Of Claudius, Defeat Of The Goths. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by Gibbon
They erected on the Cælian hill a magnificent palace, and as soon as it was finished, invited Aurelian to supper.
This last was a magnificent structure, erected by the emperor on the side of the Quirinal hill, and dedicated, soon after the triumph, to that deity whom Aurelian adored as the parent of his life and fortunes.
His mother had been an inferior priestess in a chapel of the Sun; a peculiar devotion to the god of Light was a sentiment which the fortunate peasant imbibed in his infancy; and every step of his elevation, every victory of his reign, fortified superstition by gratitude.
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 Rome - Capitoline, Palatine and Caelian Hills
The Quirinal Hill, the most northern of the seven hills, lies beyond the range of our vision to the left or to the north.
That church or basilica stands upon a slight eminence, the northern spur of the Esquiline Hill where Servius Tullius had a palace, and is at once simple and sublime.
That is, while remaining at this same place on the Janiculum Hill we shall turn so far toward the right, or south, that the solid building on the Caelian Hill now on our extreme right will then be at the extreme left of our field of vision.
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 Rome - Aventine Hill and distant Alban Mountains
It was near the summit of those hills, by the side of a small lake, we remember, that the very first beginnings of Roman history were made.
Tivoli out among the Sabine hills was the favorite summer resort in the time of Augustus and Horace, while visitors have been going out to the country homes and summer resorts on the north and northeast slope of the Alban Hills for centuries.
She was buried in the catacombs of St. Calixtus, about five miles beyond the city toward the Alban Hills, and afterwards the body was removed to this church by Paschal I. Beneath the high altar is a marble reclining statue, by Stefano Maderna, representing her body in a tomb.
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 Outlines of Roman History, Chapter 2
Drifting ashore at the foot of the Palatine hill, they were nursed by a she-wolf, and were brought up at the home of a neighboring shepherd.
The southern group comprised three hills—the Palatine, the Caelian, and the Aventine—arranged in the form of a triangle, with the Palatine projecting to the north.
The Capitoline hill was chosen as the common citadel.
www.forumromanum.org /history/morey02.html   (2048 words)

  
 Glossary - Fasti Romani   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Aventine Hill – Separated from the other hills of Rome on account of the Murcia, this land was given to the plebs for settlement in 456BCE.
Caelian Hill – The most south-easterly of the seven hills of Rome.
The Esquiline Hill was connected to the Palatine Hill via a ridge called the Velia.
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 Tullus Hostilius
After the death of Numa Pompilius the spirit of peace seemed to weaken.
Friendly feelings between the Romans and the contrymen of Alba Longa in the hills outside of Rome gave way to quarreling because people began to raid each others fields and gardens, stealing each other's crops and animals.
He had Alba Longa destroyed and gave the Albans the Caelian Hill to live on.
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 Romulus and Remus - Crystalinks
To him is attributed the founding, the extension to four of the Roman hill, the Capitoline, Aventine, Caelian and Quirinal, and the infamous rape of the Sabine women.
Rome's population grew so much that the city had settled five of the seven hills of Rome: the Capitoline Hill, the Aventine Hill, the Caelian Hill, the Quirinal Hill, and the Palatine Hill.
The city was difficult of access, having as its fortress the Capitoline Hill, on which a guard had been stationed, with a man named Tarpeius as its captain.
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 Gregory the Great
For the past five years, on trips to Rome, I have been blessed by being able to stay in a friend's apartment on the Caelian Hill, rising to the East of the Colosseum.
At the base of the hill is the magnificent church of San Clemente which I've mentioned on a previous post.
But for me personally, the strongest spiritual resonance of the Caelian Hill is that here the future Pope Gregory founded a monastery on his family estates, today commemorated by the imposing church of San Gregorio Magno on the Caelian's Southwest slope.
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Later, the Capitoline Hill emerged as the very heart of the Roman establishment, with its magnificent temples; the Palatine contained residences and eventually the homes of the emperors.
Toward the east, past the end of the Via Sacra, was an open area, surrounded by the Esquiline and Caelian hills and used by Nero for his Golden House.
The Aventine Hill was an excellent place to see the separation of classes, for the poor lived at the base of the hill, and the wealthy had villas at the top, with a view of the city.
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 Caelian Hill
Ancestors and descendants of Slaughter Hill of Macon County, Georgia; compiled by Warren David Hill from Clarksville, TN USA.
Sovereign Hill is an open-air museum, or historical park, situated in an early gold diggings area.
Situated on a hill, with airconditioned cottages, swimming pools, tennis and other club facilities all in 45 acres of landscaped property.
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 City of the Seven Hills — Infoplease.com
The hills are the Aventine, Cælian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal, and Viminal.
The PALATINE HILL was the largest of the seven.
City of the Seven Hills - City of the Seven Hills (The).
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 Founding of Rome Information
Its three peaks, minor hills (Palatium, Cermalus or Germalus, and Velia) united with the three peaks of Esquiline (Oppius, Cispius and Fagutal), and then villages on the Caelian hill and Suburra (between current Rione Monti and Oppius hill) joined them.
Chief among these is a series of fortification walls on the north slope of the Palatine Hill that can be dated to the middle of the 8th century B.C., precisely the time when legend says Romulus plowed a furrow (sulcus) around the Palatine in order to mark the boundary of his new city.
On the Capitoline hill, at noon on April 21 every year, a special bell called Patarina rings from the Campidoglio to commemorate the founding of Rome.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Founding_of_Rome   (1984 words)

  
 Seven Hills
The Caelian Hill takes its name from Caelius Vibena, who was the hero of Roma's struggle with the Tarquins.
The Caelian Hill became a fashionable place to live in Imperial Rome.
It was made of Travertine blocks and was used to support Nero's extension of the Claudian aquaduct that supplied the Imperial palace on the Palatine.
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 Quirinal Hill
The Quirinal Hill is the most northerly of the seven hills of Rome, It slopes off on the north and north-west to the Campus Martius.
The Quirinal Hill's name comes from the god Quirinus, who was identified with Romulus (Ovid, Fasti ii.51) Quirinus was itself derived from quiris, the Sabine word for a lance (Ovid, Fasti ii.477).
On the north and west slope of the hill were at least four approaches through cuts or depressions, three of which were marked by gates in the Servian wall, Porta Sanqualis, Porta Salutaris, and Porta Quirinalis.
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 Anti-christ critics - Catholic Answers Forums
One thing that you brought up was the Papacy as the Anti-Christ, because as you said, She sits on Seven hills and drinks the blood of the saints as said in Revelation.
The other six of the Seven Hills of Rome are the Aventine Hill (Collis Aventinus), the Capitoline Hill (Collis Capitolinus), the Quirinal Hill (Collis Quirinalis), the Viminal Hill (Collis Viminalis), the Esquiline Hill (Collis Esquilinus), and the Caelian Hill (Collis Caelius).
The now-famous Vatican Hill (Collis Vaticanus) is west of the Tiber and is not one of the Seven Hills of Rome.”1 By sheer fact of Georaphy, The Papacy or the Catholic Church could not be the Anti-Christ.
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