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CILLI (Slovene, Celje)

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CILLI (Slovene, Celje) , a See also:town in See also:Styria, See also:Austria, 82 m. S. by W. of See also:Graz by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 6743. It is picturesquely situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river Sarin; and still has remains of the old walls and towers, with which it was once surrounded. Memorials of a still earlier See also:period in its history—Roman antiquities—are to be seen in the municipal museum, while its canals and sewers are also of See also:Roman origin. These were discovered during the second See also:half of the 19th See also:century, and were in such a See also:good See also:state of preservation that after a few small See also:repairs they are now utilized. The See also:parish See also:church, dating from the 14th century, with its beautiful See also:Gothic See also:chapel, is one of the most interesting specimens of See also:medieval See also:architecture. The so-called See also:German church, in Romanesque See also:style, belonged to the Minorite monastery, founded in 1241 and closed in 18o8. The See also:throne of the See also:counts of Cilli is preserved here, and also the tombs of several members of the See also:family. On the Schlossberg (1320 ft.), situated to the S.E. of the town, are the ruins of the See also:castle of Ober-Cilli, the former See also:residence of the counts of Cilli. Ten See also:miles to the N.W. of Cilli are situated the See also:baths of Neuhaus, with indifferent thermal See also:waters (117° F.), frequented by ladies.

Not far from it is the ruined castle of Neuhaus, called since 1643 Schlangenburg, from which an extensive view of the neighbouring See also:

Alps is obtained. Cilli is one of the See also:oldest places in Styria, and was probably a See also:Celtic See also:settlement. It was taken See also:possession of by the See also:Romans in 15 B.c., and in A.D. 50 the See also:emperor See also:Claudius raised it to a Roman See also:municipium and named it Claudia Celeja. It soon became one of the most flourishing Roman colonies, and possessed numerous See also:great buildings, of which the See also:temple of See also:Mars was famous throughout the whole See also:empire. It was incorporated with See also:Aquileia, under See also:Constantine; and towards the end of the 6th century was destroyed by the invading Slays. It had a period of exceptional prosperity from the See also:middle of the 14th to the latter half of the 15th century, under the counts of Cilli, on the extinction of which family it See also:fell to Austria. In the 16th century it suffered greatly both from revolts of the peasantry and from the See also:Counter-See also:Reformation, Protestantism having made many converts in the See also:district, particularly among the nobles. See Glantschnigg, Celeja (Cilli, 1892).

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