Inside the ancient city or on its immediate borders were the seven hills:
|
Palatine |
(Central) |
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Capitoline |
(West) |
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Quirinal |
(North) |
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Viminal |
(Northeast) |
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Esquiline |
(East-Northeast) |
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Caelian |
(Southeast) |
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Aventine |
(Southwest) |
Outside the city were two further hills - the Janiculan (West) and Pincian (North). Evidence suggests that these were seen as less desirable places to live - the Latin equivalent of getting an 0181 phone number instead of 0171. ***
*** For non UK residents and the young - when BT split London from one single phone prefix (01) into two, they did so by making inner London 0171 and outer London 0181. A series of comedy TV adverts (based around Beattie - a Jewish Mother played by Maureen Lipman) portrayed a bit of social one-upmanship between Beattie and her friends based upon who was classed as Inner London and who was Outer.
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