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See also:VELIA (Gr. 'TEktl, later'EXfa) , an See also:ancient See also:town of Lucania, See also:Italy, on the 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 now crowned by the See also:medieval See also:castle of Castellammare della Bruca, 440 ft. above See also:sea-level, on the S.W.See also:coast, 11 m. N.W. of the See also:modern railway station of Ascea, 25 M. S.E. of See also:Paestum. Remains of the See also:city walls, with traces of one See also:gate and several towers, of a See also:total length of over 3 m., still exist, and belong to three different periods, in all of which the crystalline See also:limestone of the locality is used. Bricks were also employed in later times; their See also:form is See also:peculiar to this See also:place, each having two rectangular channels on one See also:side, and being about 15 in. square, with 'a thickness of nearly 4 in. They all See also:bear See also:Greek See also:brick-stamps. There are some remains of cisterns on the site, and various other traces of buildings. The town was mainly celebrated for the philosophers who See also:bore its name (see ELEATIC ScxooL). About 530 B.C. the Phocaeans, driven from See also:Corsica, seized it from the Oencrians. Its coins were widely diffused in S. Italy, and it kept its See also:independence even in See also:Roman times, and only became a municipiun after the Social See also:War.
See W. Schlenning in Jahrbuck See also:des K. Deutschen See also:Arch. Instituts (T889), iv. 169 sqq. (T.
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