Seven hills of Rome

The seven hills of Rome are the hills on which the seven initially independent tribes were installed, and which gathered to form the city, according to the legend, at eighth century BC.

These seven hills are according to the tradition:

the Aventin,
the Cælius,
the Capitole,
the Esquilin, plate being prolonged by the Oppius and the Cispius,
the Palatine ,
the Quirinal,
the Viminal.

The Velia was a small hill between the Palatin and the Esquilin, which was practically levelled under the Roman Empire to leave room to the Forum of Trajan. The levelling of “Mons” then formed as much part of the recasting of the city associated with the new dynasty as the realization with the forum.

The list of these “seven” hills was prone to evolutions until the end of the République. Certain sources included the Velia there, or other hills of Rome. Esquilies thus became the Esquilin to arrive at the good figure. The etymology returns indeed to the saepti assemble , i.e. with the hills enclose and not with the figure Sept. They were in fact enclose by the old ramparts of the City. Insertion as of the foundation of this one, when it was only one village, of the seven relatively distant hills appears not very probable. However confusion was done in the spirit of the Romains between saepti assemble and septem assemble the ae deciding E . Considering the rich person history of the site, the excavations on the spot for better knowing the urban development of the first times remains very difficult. The more so as the stone was not the material of use for the dwellings.

See too

ancient Rome

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