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See also:LUGUDUNUM, or LUGDUNUM , an old See also:Celtic See also:place-name (fort or 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 of the See also:god See also:Lugos or See also:Lug) used by the See also:Romans for, several towns in See also:ancient See also:Gaul. The most important was the See also:town at the confluence of the See also:Saone and See also:Rhone now called See also:Lyons (q.v.). This place had in See also:Roman times two elements. One was a Roman colonia (See also:municipality of Roman citizens, self-governing) situated
on the hill near the See also:present Fourvieres (See also:Forum vetus). The other, territorially distinct from it for reasons of statecraft, was the See also:Temple of See also:Roma and See also:Augustus, to which the inhabitants of the 64 Gallic cantons in the three Roman provinces of Aquitania, Lugudunensis and Belgica—the so-called Tres Galliae—sent delegates every summer to hold See also:games and otherwise celebrate the See also:worship of the See also:emperor which was supposed to knit the provincials to See also:Rome. The two elements together composed the
most important town of western See also:Europe in Roman times. blance to the See also:style of See also:Mantegna, as later on to that of See also:Raphael. Lugudunum controlled the See also:trade of its two See also:rivers, and that which
passed from See also:northern Gaul to the Mediterranean or See also:vice versa; it had a See also:mint; it was the See also:capital of all northern Gaul, despite its position in the See also:south, and its See also:wealth was such that, when Rome was burnt in See also:Nero's reign, its inhabitants subscribed largely to the See also:relief of the Eternal See also:City. (F. J.
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