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Interesting factoid... many cities with imperial ambitions were built on areas with seven hills , as Rome is/was. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_citie
by shrubble 7y ago
Interesting factoid... many cities with imperial ambitions were built on areas with seven hills , as Rome is/was.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_claimed_to_be_built_on_seven_hills https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_claimed_to_be...
many capital cities in the above list, including Constantinople, capital of Byzantium and Moscow, Russia which considers itself the heir of Byzantium. Plus Albany NY, Seattle WA, San Francisco (not a capital but an important city in CA).
- empath75 7y agoI’d probably question that given how many cities want to be a new rome and how famous Rome’s seven hills are. It’s easy to pick any collection of seven hills in a city that has more hills than that and say they’re ‘the’ seven hills of the city.
- Rerarom 7y agoThe trick is to do it with less than seven hills.
- reroute1 7y ago"But that last hill is just a landfill"
- abrowne 7y agoThis at least would not be out of character for Rome: Monte Testaccio is an artificial mound in Rome composed almost entirely of testae (Italian: cocci), fragments of broken ancient Roman pottery, nearly all discarded amphorae dating from the time of the Roman Empire[.] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Testaccio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Testaccio