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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Capital of Italy and of Lazio region, on the River Tiber, 27 km/17 mi from the Tyrrhenian Sea; population (2001 est) 2,459,800. Rome is an important transport hub and cultural centre. A large section of the population finds employment in government and other offices: the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church (the Vatican City State , a separate sovereign area within Rome) and other international bodies, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), are here. It is also a destination for many tourists and pilgrims. Industries include engineering, printing, food processing, electronics, and the manufacture of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics, and clothes. The city is a centre for the film and fashion industries. Called the Eternal City, Rome is one of the world's richest cities in history and art; among the remains of the ancient city (see Rome, ancient ) are the Forum, Colosseum , and Pantheon. History (For early history see Rome, ancient .) After the deposition of the…
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This article aims at presenting an updated overview of the archaeology of Rome, focusing above all on the ancient city, from the foundation in the mid eighth century BC up to the fall of Roman Empire in the fourth century AD. One of the most relevant features of the topic is that the archaeology (in…
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From Philip's Encyclopedia
(Roma) Capital of Italy, on the River Tiber, W central Italy. Founded in the 8th century bc it was probably an Etruscan city-kingdom in the 6th century bc . The Roman Republic was founded in c .500 bc . By the 3rd century bc Rome ruled most of Italy and began to expand overseas. In the 1st century…
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From The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Houghton Mifflin
Capital of Italy , largest city in the country, and seat of the Roman Catholic Church ( see Vatican City State ; see also Vatican ), located on the Tiber River in west-central Italy. Rome is one of the world's great centers of history, art, architecture, and religion. Rome was the capital of the…
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From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
or Ital. Ro•ma \ˈrō-mä;\ anc. Roma \ˈrō-mə\. City, county seat of Floyd co., NW Georgia, 55 mi. (88 km.) NW of Atlanta; pop. (2000c) 34,980; textiles; in farming region; Shorter Coll. (1873), Floyd Coll. (1970); founded 1834; Confederate rail and manufacturing center in Civil War; occupied by Union…
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From The Classical Tradition
I. Antiquity to Renaissance Without Rome there would be no classical tradition, at least in the visual arts. Rome was the conduit through which the artistic legacy of Greece passed into later Western culture, and Romans created the Graeco-Italic language of art and architecture that was received as…
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From Encyclopedia of Ancient Rome
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Rome is the modern capital of Italy, and the largest city in the Italian Peninsula. Its current population is nearly 3 million. Rome was the chief city of the Roman people, the capital of the Roman Republic from 509 B.C.E. and the empire from the reign of AUGUSTUS (27 B.C.E.–14 C.E.) until that of…
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From Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity
I. History and archaeology - II. Councils - III. Liturgy. Lietzmann, H. , Petrus und Paulus , Berlin 1927;. Caspar, E. , Geschichte des Papsttums , I and II , Tübingen 1930;. Grisar, H. …
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
The greatest city of the ancient world, according to legend founded in 753  bc by romulus and named after him, but possibly in reality either from Ruma, a former name of the River Tiber, of Etruscan origin, or from Greek rhein , ‘to flow’ or rhōmē , ‘strength’. This last suggestion is supported by…
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From Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World
This non-Greek city of west-central Italy is located in Latium, about 16 miles from the Tyrrhenian coast. After being strongly influenced by the Greeks in such cultural rudiments as its alphabet and religion , Rome emerged in the 300s BCE as a dynamic military force, destined to conquer an empire…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
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City (pop., 2007 est.: city, 2,705,603; urban agglom., 3,339,000), capital of Italy. It is situated on the Tiber River in the central part of the country. The historical site of Rome on its seven hills was occupied as early as the Bronze Age ( c. 1500 bce ), and the city was politically unified by…
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