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See also:CALAHORRA (anc. Calagurris) , a See also:city of See also:northern See also:Spain, in the See also:province of Logrono; on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river Cidacos which enters the See also:Ebro 3 M. E., and on the See also:Bilbao-See also:Saragossa railway. Pop. (Igoo) 9475. Calahorra inbuilt on the slope of 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 overlooking the wide Ebro valley, which supplies its markets with an abundance of See also:grain, See also:wine, oil and See also:flax. Its See also:cathedral, which probably See also:dates from the See also:foundation of the see of Calahorra in the 5th See also:century, was restored in 1485, and subsequently so much altered that little of the See also:original See also:Gothic structure survives. The Casa See also:Santa, annually visited by many thousands of pilgrims on the 31st of See also:August, is said to contain the bodies of the martyrs Emeterius and Celedonius, who were beheaded in the 3rd or 4th century, on the site now occupied by the cathedral. Their heads, according to See also:local See also:legend, were See also:cast into the Ebro, and, after floating out to See also:sea and rounding the Iberian See also:peninsula, are now preserved at See also:Santander.
The See also:chief remains of the See also:Roman Calagurris are the vestiges of an See also:aqueduct and an See also:amphitheatre. Calagurris became famous in 76 B.C., when it was successfully defended against See also:Pompey by the adherents of See also:Sertorius. Four years later it was captured by Pompey's See also:legate, See also:Afranius, after See also:starvation had reduced the See also:garrison to See also:cannibalism. Under See also:Augustus (31 B.C.-A.D. 14) Calagurris received the privileges of Roman citizenship, and at a later date it was given the additional name of Nassica to distinguish it from the neighbouring See also:town of Calagurris Fibularensis, the exact site of which is uncertain. The rhetorician See also:Quintilian was See also:born at Calagurris Nassica about A.D. 35.
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