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 | | The forum, corresponding to the agora in a Greek city, was a central open space used as a meeting-place, market, or rendezvous for political demonstrations, like the French " place," the English market-place, and the Royal Exchange or Trafalgar Square, London. |
 | | All were designed to meet the requirements of Roman citizens, and with the surrounding buildings they reflect not only the religion, law, and commerce, but also the busy corporate life of the city, which was much the same whatever the form of government, whether of elected Kings, Republic, or Empire (p. |
 | | The " Forum Romanum," Rome, the oldest and most important of all, was laid out in the valley between the seven hills of the Imperial City, and was used in early times as a hippodrome, and for contests which later took place in amphitheatres. |
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