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2 unusual facts about Vatican Hill


Muhammad I Abu 'l-Abbas

In 846 an Aghlabid force seized Rome and plundered the Vatican, though they were not able to hold onto Rome and Taranto and Bari soon detached themselves from the Aghlabids and submitted to the Abbasids in Baghdad.

Vaticanus

Vatican Hill (in Latin, Vaticanus Mons), a location of Holy See



see also

Clementine Chapel

The area was once called Vatican Hill in honor of the ancient Etruscan worship of the pagan deity Vatica, the goddess of the dead, as the area was once used as a Roman cemetery.