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MACERATA , a See also:city of the See also:Marches, See also:Italy, the See also:chief See also:town of the See also:province of Macerata and a See also:bishop's see, 44 M. by See also:rail S. of See also:Ancona. Pop. (1901), 6,176 (town), 22,473 (See also:commune). Crowning 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 919 ft. above See also:sea-level, with a picturesque See also:mass of buildings enclosed by walls and towers, Macerata looks out over the Adriatic. The See also:cathedral is See also:modern, but some of the churches and palaces are not without See also:interest. Besides the university, agricultural school and See also:industrial See also:institute, Macerata has a communal library founded by See also:Leo XII., containing a small but choice collection of See also:early pictures, and in the municipal buildings, a collection of antiquities from Helvia See also:Ricina. There is an enormous See also:amphitheatre or sferisterio for See also:pallone, a See also:ball See also:game which is very popular in the See also:district. The See also:industries comprise the making of bricks, matches, terra-See also:cotta and chemicals.
Macerata, as well as See also:Recanati, was founded by the inhabitants of Ricina after the destruction of their city by See also:Alaric in 408. During the Lombard See also:period it was a flourishing town; but it was raised from See also:comparative insignificance by See also:Nicholas IV. to be the seat of the See also:governors of the See also:March. It was enclosed in the 13th See also:century by a new See also:line of walls more than 22 M. in See also:circuit; and in the troubles of the next two See also:hundred years it had frequent occasion to learn their value. For the most See also:part it remained faithful to the popes, and in return it was rewarded by a multitude of privileges. Though in 1797 the inhabitants opened their See also:gates to the See also:French, two years afterwards, when the See also:country See also:people took See also:refuge within the walls, the city was taken by See also:storm and delivered to pillage. The bishopric of Macerata See also:dates from the suppression of the see of Recanati (1320).
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