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RUSELLAE , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Etruria, See also:Italy, about Io m. S.E. of Vetulonia and 5 m. N.E. of See also:Grosseto, 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 with two summits, the higher 636 ft. above See also:sea-level. It was one of the twelve cities of the See also:Etruscan See also:confederation, and was taken in 294 B.C. by the See also:Romans. In 205 B.C. it contributed See also:grain and See also:timber for the needs of Scipio's See also:fleet. A See also:colony was founded here either by the Triumviri or by See also:Augustus. The See also:place was deserted in 1138, and the episcopal see was transferred
to Grosseto. The ruins are now thickly overgrown with brushwood; but the walls, nearly 2 M. in circumference, are in places well preserved. They consist of large unworked blocks of a travertine which naturally splits into roughly rectangular blocks; these are quite irregular, and often as much as 9 ft. See also:long by 4 ft. wide: in the interstices smaller pieces are inserted. The walls are embanking walls, with a See also:low breastwork in places. Within the See also:circuit which they enclose, now under cultivation, are two summits, one occupied by a See also:Roman See also:amphitheatre [the other by a See also:tower (?) of uncertain date]: a Roman cistern also is visible. Some 2 M. S.S.W. are See also:modern See also:baths, fed by hot springs, which were in use in Roman times also, as the See also:discovery of remains of Roman buildings shows.
See G. See also:Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (See also:London, 1883), U. 222. (T.
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