While David Kessler and Peter Temin consider ancient Rome to be the largest city before 19th century London and the first to have exceeded a population of over 1 million, George Modelski considers medieval Baghdad, with an estimated population of 1. 2 million at its peak, to be the largest city before 19th century London and the first with a population of over one million.

He considers the edict to be heretical and the schism between the Church of Rome and the Church of Constantinople widens.

Much of the debate in recent times was prompted by the 1972 Club of Rome study Limits to Growth, which considers the ecological impact of growth and wealth creation.

Whereas the Patriarch of Constantinople is now considered first among the Orthodox patriarchs, the Orthodox Church considers the Bishop of Rome ( regarded as the " Patriarch of the West ") the " first among equals " in the Pentarchy of the Patriarchal Sees according to the ancient, first millennial order ( or " taxis " in Greek ) of Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem after Constantinople became the eastern capital of the Roman / Byzantine Empire.

In his writing, Villani states that he considers Florence to be the " daughter and creation of Rome ," but asserts Rome's decline and Florence's rise as a great city compelled him to lay out a detailed history of the city.

M. Guarducci considers her cult very ancient, identifying her with Mnemosyne as the Warner because of her presence near the auguraculum, her oracular character, her announcement of perils: she considers her as an introduction into Rome of the Hera of Cuma dating to the VIII century.

Basanoff considers her to go back to the regal period: she would be the Sabine Juno who arrived at Rome through Cures.

Marcel Renard for his part considers her an ancient Roman figure since the title of the Veian Juno expresses a cultic reality that is close to and indeed presupposes the existence at Rome of an analogous character: as a rule it is the presence of an original local figure that may allow the introduction of the new one through evocatio.

It currently considers Rome and Sydney in addition to London, Hawaii, and Paris.

Dom Cabrol (" Benediction Episcopale " in " Report of the 19th Eucharistic Congress ") considers that the Anglo-Saxon Benedictions were not survivals of Gallican ( Celtic ) usage, but were derived from the ancient practice of Rome itself, and that the rite was a general one of which traces are found nearly everywhere.

A crime consisting in acts which society not only forbids but also considers as highly immoral and particularly dishonoring, as defined ( variously ) in certain legal systems, as in Poland ; in its origin, in Ancient Rome, infamia was the mark of disapproval of the censors on moral grounds-often such ' legal immorality ' is largely defined according to the state-or de facto dominant religion.

Steinberg spoke with warmth and enthusiasm about Italy: `` Rome is my second home.

Like everything else in Rome, ruins and monuments alike, that house is lived in.

Gossip had it ( for gossip is the soul of Rome ) that a famous American dancer of the time had paid for both the planes.

Built upon seven hills, Istanbul, like Rome, is one of the most ancient cities in the world, filled with splendor and contrast.

Easy to get to, and becoming more popular every year, it is only fourteen hours from New York by Pan American World Airways jet, four hours from Rome.

You will realize why Rome is indeed the Eternal City.

Here is one of the loveliest fountains in Rome, the Fontana delle Tartarughe or `` Fountain of the Tortoises ''.

The dome of the church is, outside of St. Peter's, one of the largest in Rome.

The scene before you is indeed theatrical and often appears in movies about Rome.

This is one of the most charming little squares in this part of Rome.

Either here, or in one of the modest restaurants nearby, is just the place to end this first walk through the heart of Rome.

The second walk through the heart of Rome should be taken after lunch, so that you will reach the Pincian Hill when the soft light of the late afternoon is at its best.

`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.

* The abbot of Sant ' Anselmo di Aventino, in Rome, is styled the " abbot primate ," and is acknowledged the senior abbot for the Order of St. Benedict ( O. S. B.

This terminology is common in many countries, and originated from the " Lex Sempronia Agraria " or " agrarian laws " of Rome in 133 BC, imposed by Tiberius Gracchus, that seized public land ( ager publicus ) used by the rich and distributed it to the poor.

Inevitably, the surviving evidence is not complete enough to determine whether one should interpret, with older scholars, that he wisely curtailed the activities of the Roman Empire to a careful minimum, or perhaps that he was uninterested in events away from Rome and Italy and his inaction contributed to the pressing troubles that faced not only Marcus Aurelius but also the emperors of the third century.

He is alleged to have founded an institution for virgins in Rome.

The Alabama River's main tributary, the Coosa River, crosses the mineral region of Alabama and is navigable for light-draft boats from Rome, Georgia, to about above Wetumpka ( about below Rome and below Greensport ), and from Wetumpka to its junction with the Tallapoosa.

He is a character in Greek mythology and is mentioned in Homer's Iliad, and receives full treatment in Roman mythology as the legendary founder of what would become Ancient Rome, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid.

It is at this point that Paris gives Aeneas Priam's sword, in order to give legitimacy and continuity to the Royal Line of Troy – and lay the foundations of Rome.

There is a surviving portrait of Agrippina the Elder in the Capitoline Museums in Rome.

The Visigothic leader thereupon laid siege upon Rome in 408.

An antipope () or anti-pope is a person who, in opposition to the one who is generally seen as the legitimately elected Pope, makes a significantly accepted competing claim to be the Pope, the Bishop of Rome and leader of the Catholic Church.

To avenge this abduction, the Sabines attacked Rome, although not immediately — since Hersilia, the daughter of Tatius, the leader of the Sabines, had been married to Romulus, the Roman leader, and then had two children by him in the interim.

The title was first used as an honorific for a military leader in ancient Rome.

Benito Mussolini ( centre in suit with arms akimbo ) along with other Fascist leader figures and Blackshirts during the March on Rome.

Ruled by Theodoric, the Ostrogoths were established in Italy, while the Vandal leader Gaiseric had sacked Rome and founded a kingdom in Africa.

He began by making use of Cola di Rienzo ( former leader of the citizenship freedom in Rome ), whose release from prison at Avignon he secured.

The primacy of Rome makes its bishop the worldwide leader of the church, commonly known as the Pope.

* 1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.

Civil war resulted, from which he emerged as the unrivaled leader of Rome.

On 4 October 1992, the Rome General Peace Accords, negotiated by the Community of Sant ' Egidio with the support of the United Nations, were signed in Rome between President Chissano and RENAMO leader Afonso Dhlakama, which formally took effect on the October 15, 1992.

Bart D. Ehrman referred to a work by an early anonymous Christian writer ( perhaps Hippolytus, a Christian leader in Rome around 200 AD ) who in a commentary on the Old Testament book Song of Songs, wrote that Jesus first appeared to the women at the tomb.

The pope ( from ; from ( pappas ), a child's word for father ) is the Bishop of Rome and the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.

He at once endeavoured to bring down Arnold of Brescia, the leader of the anti-papal faction in Rome.

For a while, as the White Penitents approached Rome, gaining adherents along the way, Boniface IX and the Curia supported their penitential enthusiasm, but when they reached Rome, Boniface IX had their leader burnt at the stake, and they soon dispersed.

In theory, the people of Rome elected their leader, but the Senate had most of the control over the process.

He and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia.

* June 10 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.

He and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia.

In its sequel, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Madame Solari is shown to be the leader of the courtesans in Rome.

* Arnold of Brescia joins the revolutionary Commune of Rome, where he becomes its intellectual leader for the next decade.

In Season Eight ( 2007 – 11 ), it establishes Buffy is not living with the Immortal in Rome which is simply a cover story to ensure her safety as she is now the leader of a global organization which recruits and trains Slayers to deal with demonic threats worldwide.