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5 definitions found From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Rome n 1: capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire [syn: {Rome}, {Roma}, {Eternal City}, {Italian capital}, {capital of Italy}] 2: the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church [syn: {Rome}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Rome, GA (city, FIPS 66668) Location: 34.26267 N, 85.18667 W Population (1990): 30326 (13099 housing units) Area: 62.7 sq km (land), 0.9 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30161, 30165 Rome, IA (city, FIPS 68565) Location: 40.98331 N, 91.68074 W Population (1990): 124 (56 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Rome, IL (CDP, FIPS 65403) Location: 40.87838 N, 89.51171 W Population (1990): 1902 (735 housing units) Area: 5.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Rome, IN Zip code(s): 47574 Rome, NY (city, FIPS 63418) Location: 43.22552 N, 75.48926 W Population (1990): 44350 (16661 housing units) Area: 194.1 sq km (land), 1.9 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 13440 Rome, OH (village, FIPS 68196) Location: 38.66481 N, 83.37907 W Population (1990): 99 (56 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Rome, PA (borough, FIPS 65944) Location: 41.85791 N, 76.34163 W Population (1990): 475 (191 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 18837 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: ROME An experimental {object-oriented} language. ["The Point of View Notion for {Multiple Inheritance}", B. Carre et al SIGPLAN Notices 25(10):312-321 (OOPSLA/ECOOP '90) (Oct 1990)]. (1994-11-30) From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Rome the most celebrated city in the world at the time of Christ. It is said to have been founded B.C. 753. When the New Testament was written, Rome was enriched and adorned with the spoils of the world, and contained a population estimated at 1,200,000, of which the half were slaves, and including representatives of nearly every nation then known It was distinguished for its wealth and luxury and profligacy. The empire of which it was the capital had then reached its greatest prosperity. On the day of Pentecost there were in Jerusalem "strangers from Rome," who doubtless carried with them back to Rome tidings of that great day and were instrumental in founding the church there Paul was brought to this city a prisoner, where he remained for two years (Acts 28:30, 31) "in his own hired house." While here Paul wrote his epistles to the Philippians, to the Ephesians to the Colossians to Philemon, and probably also to the Hebrews. He had during these years for companions Luke and Aristarchus (Acts 27:2), Timothy (Phil. 1:1; Col. 1:1), Tychicus (Eph. 6: 21), Epaphroditus (Phil. 4:18), and John Mark (Col. 4:10). (See {PAUL}.) Beneath this city are extensive galleries, called "catacombs," which were used from about the time of the apostles (one of the inscriptions found in them bears the date A.D. 71) for some three hundred years as places of refuge in the time of persecution, and also of worship and burial. About four thousand inscriptions have been found in the catacombs. These give an interesting insight into the history of the church at Rome down to the time of Constantine. From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Rome, strength; power
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