[City of Churches], Brooklyn, now incorporated with New York.
[City of Destruction], Bunyan's name for the world as under divine judgment.
[City of God], Augustine's name for the Church as distinct from the cities of the world, and the title of a book of his defining it.
[City of Palaces], Calcutta and Rome.
[City of the Prophet], Medina, where Mahomet found refuge when driven out of Mecca by the Koreish and their adherents.
[City of the Seven Hills], Rome, as built on seven hills—viz., the Aventine, Coelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal, and Viminal.
[City of the Sun], [Baalbek] (q. v.); and a work by Campanella, describing an ideal republic, after the manner of Plato and Sir Thomas More.
[City of the Violet Crown], Athens.
[Ciudad Real] (royal city) (13), a Spanish town in a province of the same name, 105 m. S. of Madrid, where Sebastian defeated the Spaniards in 1809.
[Ciudad Rodrigo] (8), a Spanish town near the Portuguese frontier, 50 m. SW. of Salamanca; stormed by Wellington, after a siege of 11 days, in 1812, for which brilliant achievement he earned the title of Earl in England, and Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain.