Eternal City
Eternal City noun - 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.
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Rome and Eternal City are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rome" instead a noun phrase "Eternal City".
Rome
Rome noun - 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.
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Eternal City and Rome are semantically related. You can use "Eternal City" instead a noun "Rome".
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The Romans also pulled a version of this on any barbarian nations they subjugated, whereby they would take a few of the chieftains' sons as quasi-voluntary hostages, send them to Rome, and shower them with all the luxuries that The Eternal City could offer.
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Rome also entered a bid for the Games, until their mayor Virginia Raggi - a staunch opponent of the bid - withdrew their candidacy in September 2016, saying it would be "irresponsible" for the Eternal City to be a candidate.
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Although the units are to scale, Total War does tend to fall into Thriving Ghost Town a lot: in Rome: Total War, the Eternal City can never get a population above 32000 or so, for game-balancing reasons, and none of the cities have anywhere near enough residential space.
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