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Americas[edit]

Asunción, Paraguay - The city is one of the oldest in South America. The seven hills are difficult to detect, but are: Cabara, Cerro Lambaré, Clavel, Cachinga, Cachinga, Tacumbú amd Tarumã

Athens, Texas, United States^[4]

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States (now encompasses more than seven) ^[5]^[6]

Ellicott City, Maryland, United States ^[7]

Guaranda, Ecuador^[8]^[9]

Lynchburg, Virginia, United States College Hill, Garland Hill, Daniel's Hill, Federal Hill, Diamond Hill, White Rock Hill, and Franklin Hill were the original "Seven Hills" of the City of Lynchburg.^[10]

Nevada City, California, United States, built on Piety, Lost, Prospect, Aristocracy, Boulder, Nabob, and Buckeye Hills ^[11]

Nixa, Missouri, United States

Providence, Rhode Island, built on Christian Hill, College Hill, Constitution Hill, Federal Hill, Smith Hill, Tockwotten Hill, and Weybosset Hill.

Richmond, Virginia, United States, built on numerous hills and escarpments to include Union Hill, Church Hill, Council Chamber Hill, Shockoe Hill, Gambles Hill, Navy Hill and Oregon Hill.^[12]

Rome, Georgia, United States

Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

San Diego, California, United States^{[citation needed]}

San Francisco, California, United States (see List of hills in San Francisco)

Seattle, Washington, United States (see Seven hills of Seattle)

Seven Hills, Ohio, United States

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, built on Clarendon Hill, College Hill, Spring Hill, Winter Hill, Central Hill, Plowed Hill, Cobble Hill.

Staten Island, New York, United States - Fort Hill, Ward Hill, Fox Hill, Grymes Hill, Emerson Hill, Todt Hill, and Richmond Hill.

Tallahassee, Florida, United States

Victoria, Argentina

Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, built on Airport Hill, Bancroft Hill, Belmont Hill, Grafton Hill, Green Hill, Pakachoag Hill, and Vernon Hill.

Yonkers, New York, United States^[13]^[14]

Asia[edit]

Amman, Jordan

Jerusalem, Israel This important religious center is situated on seven hills, but considering the various changes of the landscape over the centuries, it has not been possible to locate the hills on which the city rests.

Macau

Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Mumbai Saat Dweep Samuh (now joined, into a peninsula)

Tehran, Iran

Thiruvananthapuram, India

Tirumala, India In Asia, there are few cities on seven hills, except in India. One of the hill town of Tirumala is precisely where the Temple of Seven Hills, the Tirumala Venkateswara. This temple is affirmed to be the most active place of worship in the world.

Cities Built on Seven Hills

The number seven is considered to be lucky (or at least significant) in many different cultures from a religiousand theosophical standpoint. We’ve taken that number and applied it to everything from a basis for gambling games to a measurement of time. Geographically, in antiquity there were the ‘seven wonders of the world’, the ‘seven seas’, Ptolemy’s ‘seven climes’, the seven mouths of the Nile, and the seven hills of Rome, from which this article takes its cue.

The Seven Hills of Rome. The thick black line encircling the hills represents the old city wall.

Ancient Rome was built on and around seven hills, remnants of an old volcanic ridge. The symbolism of the most important city in Western antiquity, the home of the Catholic Church, being built upon seven hills has carried on throughout the ages. Today, dozens of notable cities around the world can claim, intentionally or not, to be built upon seven hills.

Rome’s main rival for the ‘seven hills’ title – at least among fringe religious scholars – would appear to be Jerusalem. Five other major cities – Iaşi, Istanbul, Moscow, San Francisco, and Seattle actually have dedicated Wikipedia articles about their seven hills.

The historic seven hills of Constantinople were basically synonymous with the city core, bounded on the north by the Golden Horn, on the east and south by the Sea of Marmara, and on the west by the city wall. AncientByzantium was founded on the first hill at Seraglio Point. Modern Istanbul has long since expanded beyond these bounds. The parallels between Rome and old Constantinople, of course, were many due to their shared heritage as seats of the Roman Empire, and their statuses as seats of the two main branches of pre-Reformation Christianity. It may come as little surprise that when Moscow became the main centre of the Orthodox Church (a ‘third Rome’) after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the myth that it, too, was built upon seven hills arose in an effort to further the analogy between the two cities.

San Francisco has far more than seven hills – anywhere between 22 and 71 within the city proper, depending upon the source (for example, the San Francisco Almanac puts the number at 46; sfgazetteer.com names 71). Some folks, though, speak of the ‘seven hills of San Francisco’, the supposed seven hills that comprised the original city site (Telegraph Hill, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Rincon Hill, Mount Sutro, Twin Peaks and Mount Davidson, according to the city archivist emeritus). Seattle’s supposed ‘seven hills’ are also rather arbitrary.

From Kyiv to Kampala, Amman to Abergavenny, Lisbon to Lynchburg, Seven Hills to, well, Seven Hills, the predilection for cities to denote themselves as being built upon seven hills hold great symbolism around the world as cities attempt to claim a piece of the legacy of ancient Rome.

http://basementgeographer.com/cities-built-on-seven-hills/

Siebengebirge

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Seven Hills
Siebengebirge
Seven Hills, 1900
Highest point
Peak	Großer Ölberg
Elevation	460 m (1,510 ft)
Coordinates	50°40′46″N 07°14′54″ECoordinates: 50°40′46″N 07°14′54″E
Geography
Area map of Seven Hills
Country	Germany
State/Province	North Rhine-Westphalia andRhineland-Palatinate
Geology
Orogeny	Volcanic
Age of rock	Oligocene

The castle Schloss Drachenburg is one of the landmarks of Seven Hills

Seven Hills,^[1]^[2]^[3] or Seven Mountains (German: Siebengebirge), is a Central Uplandish hill range on the east bank of the Middle Rhine, southeast of Bonn, Germany. The area, located in the municipalities of Bad Honnef andKönigswinter, consists of more than 40 hills. The hills are of ancient volcanic origin and came into being between 28 and 15 million years ago. Much of the territory covered by Seven Hills belongs to the Seven Hills Nature Park (Naturpark Siebengebirge), which is under environmental protection.

The highest peak is the Ölberg at 460 metres above sea level. It is a popular tourist destination for hiking, because of its natural beauty.

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Hills[edit]

The seven most important hills:

Großer Ölberg (460 m)
Löwenburg (455 m)
Lohrberg (435 m)
Nonnenstromberg (335m)
Petersberg (331 m, Former name: Stromberg)
Wolkenburg (324 m)
Drachenfels (321 m)

Other hills:

Himmerich (366 m)
Trenkeberg (430 m)
Weilberg (297 m)
Stenzelberg (287 m)
Broderkonsberg (378 m)
Mittelberg (353 m)
Leyberg (359 m)
Jungfernhardt (320 m)
Geisberg (324 m)
Schallenberg (310 m)
Großer Breiberg (313 m)
Kleiner Breiberg (288 m)
Wasserfall (338 m)
Kleiner Ölberg (332 m)
Limperichsberg
Scharfenberg
Zickelburg (182 m)

Origin of the German name[edit]

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Although the common English name "Seven Hills" is merely the most logical translation of the German name, Siebengebirge, the origins of the latter are disputed. Three theories exist:

The oldest name (Moller, 1590) was not Siebengebirge, but Sieben Berge (septem montes, seven hills). Depending on the viewpoint near the river Rhine, one notices almost exactly seven hills, which are not always the same and not even the highest. Also, the number seven used to denote an arbitrary amount of items, was connected to magic and thus had a highly symbolic meaning. This makes it an obvious name for an area that was said to be sinister and impenetrable before the 19th century.
The word sieben is derived from the word siefen, which denotes the wet valley of a stream.
The name Siebengebirge emerged from the word Siedengebirge which indicated the presence of soap boilers ("Seifensieder"), who were banned from the valleys because boiling soap smelled so bad.

Rome was built on seven hills. Here they are (the ones inside the city walls):

http://octavianchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/RomeColor730rev7.jpg

Many other cities decided that they wanted a piece of Rome's glory and created their own seven hills legends. Here is Wikipedia's extensive list of cities claiming to have seven hills. Of course the nature of hills make it easy to cherry pick various topographical features to come up with seven hills, and also to dispute those claims. Cincinnati seems like a good example of a city that's trying too hard to arrive at exactly seven hills.

http://www.diggingcincinnati.com/2014/03/cincinnati-city-of-seven-hills.html

Also cities tend to expand to include more hills and many of the original ones have been leveled. Here is a collection of various seven hills maps for your reading pleasure.

Jerusalem - they had seven hills long before Rome. Here is a sketch showing seven hills within the old (third) city wall

http://www.centuryone.com/images/exploredjerusalem.jpg

One of the first cities to jump on the seven hills bandwagon wasConstantinople (Istanbul) - here is a map from the Hebrew wikipedia. The hills are numbered but not named.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seven_hills_of_IST.png

Rome, Georgia - if you're going to name your city Rome, it might as well have seven hills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome,_Georgia#/media/File:Rome_Georgia%27s_7_Hills_and_3_Rivers.png

Richmond, Virginia took the extra step of listing their seven hills in a 1937 ordinance. The goofy colored triangles represent "official" hills. Several other gray triangles shown are "unofficial" hills. The far west hill is called "Oregon" because that's how far west it seemed to the rest of the city at the time. The complete list is here. You can explore them interactively here.

http://www.rvabusiness.com/2012/06/28/the-seven-hills-of-richmond/

St. Paul, Minnesota - they can only agree on five of them, and some of them are really just bluffs rising up from the river. A full accounting of them can be found here.

https://www.minnpost.com/stroll/2015/07/st-pauls-7-hills-there-seems-be-agreement-5-them

Here is a nice map and description of Seattle's seven hills...

http://geologywriter.com/blog/seven-hills-of-seattle/

... except maybe there are really twelve?

http://geologywriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-shot-2014-10-20-at-6.01.07-PM.png

In Africa, Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon is known as La Ville aux Sept Collines (city of seven hills) - all of them are on the west side of the city.

http://www.memoireonline.com/01/13/6854/Anthropisation-et-risques-environnementaux-sur-les-collines-de-Yaounde16.png

Thiruvananthapuram-capital of Kerala Province India

Maybe not. The Hindu (souurce for this graphic) says "if we start counting the hills in the city, it becomes confusing. Hills there are, but to decide on the seven that the city rests on, is near impossible. The really high hills are outside the city."

Near me Somerville, Massachusetts claims seven hills and has a park devoted to them with cute towers marked for each hill.