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| • | |- |align="center" colspan=2 style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;"|City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR(The Senate and the People of Rome)|-|Founded|| 21 April753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC|-|Region||Latium|-||Mayor|| Walter Veltroni(Left-Wing Democrats)|-|Area - City Proper || 1290 km²|-|Population - City (2004) - Metropolitan - Density (city proper) || 2,823,807 almost 4,000,000 1,974/km²|-|Time zone||CET, UTC+1|-|Coordinates|||-|align="center" colspan=2|www.comune.roma.it|-|align="center" colspan=2 style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;"|The Colosseum is the international symbol of Rome|}Rome (Italian and Latin: Roma) is the capital of Italy and of its Latium region. It is located on the Tiber and Aniene rivers, near the Mediterranean Sea, at . The Vatican City, a sovereign enclave within Rome, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Church and the home of the Pope. Rome is the largest city and comune in Italy; the comune or municipality is one of the largest in Europe with an area of 1290 square kilometers. Within the city limits, the population is 2,823,807 (2004); almost 4 million live in the general area of Rome as represented by the province of Rome. The current mayor of Rome is Walter Veltroni. With a GDP of ࢂ&#-1353;5 billion (higher than New Zealand's and equivalent to Singapore's — all three have roughly the same population of around 4 million), in the year 2001 the comune of Rome produced 6.5% of Italy's total GDP, the highest rate among all of Italy's cities. The city's history extends nearly 2,800 years, during which time it has been the seat of ancient Rome (the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic, Roman Empire), and later the Papal States, Kingdom of Italy and Italian Republic. Source: [wikipedia: rome] |
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| Rome Braves | ||
| official home of the rome braves, an affiliate of the atlanta braves. | ||
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| The Christian Catacombs of Rome | ||
| discusses the history, importance as historical evidence of the catacombs and life and martyrdom in the early christian church. | ||
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