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APOLLONIA , the name of more than See also:thirty cities of antiquity. The most important are the following: (I) An Illyrian See also:city (known as Apollonia Kar' 'Errthalcvov or rrpbs 'Errehaµvw) on the right See also:bank of the Aous, founded by the See also:Corinthians and Coreyraeans. It soon became a See also:place of increasing commercial prosperity, as the most convenient See also:link between Brundusium and See also:northern See also:Greece, and as one of the starting-points of the Via Egnatia. It was an important military See also:post in the See also:wars against See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip and during the See also:civil wars of See also:Pompey and See also:Caesar, and towards the See also:close of the See also:Roman See also:republic acquired fame as a seat of literature and See also:philosophy. Here See also:Augustus was being educated when the See also:death of Caesar called him to See also:Rome. It seems to have sunk with the rise of Aulon, and few remains of its ruins are to be found. The monastery of Pollina stands on a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill which probably is See also:part of the site of the old city. (2) A Thracian city on the See also:Black See also:Sea (afterwards Sozopolis, and now Sizeboli), colonized by the Milesians, and famous for its See also:colossal statue of See also:Apollo by See also:Calamis, which See also:Lucullus removed to Rome.
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