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ARLON , the See also:chief See also:town of the Belgian See also:province of See also:Luxemburg, situated 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 about 1240 ft. above the See also:sea. Pop. (1904) 10,894. It is a very See also:ancient town, and in the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:Romans was called Orolaunum, being a station on the Antoninian way connecting See also:Reims and Treves. Authorities dispute as to the origin of the name, some tracing it to Ara Lunae, a See also:temple of See also:Diana having been erected here, while others more plausibly derive it from the See also:Celtic words ar (See also:mount) and lun (wooded). Nowadays the See also:woods have disappeared, and Arlon is chiefly notable for the extensive views obtainable from the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St Donat which crowns the See also:peak. Arlon is no longer fortified. When See also:Vauban by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. turned it into a fortress in 1671 See also:great damage was done to the old See also:Roman See also:wall, the See also:foundations of which were practically intact. In the See also:local museum are many Roman antiquities collected on the spot, including several large sculptural stones similar to the celebrated See also:monument at Igel near Treves. In the See also:middle ages Arlon was the seat of a powerful countship (later marquisate), held after 1235 by the See also:dukes of Luxemburg. As an important strategic position it was several times seized by the See also:French, e.g. in 1647 and 1651.
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