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CILLI (Slovene, Celje)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 366 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CILLI (Slovene, Celje)  , a
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town in Styria, Austria, 82 m . S. by W. of
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Graz by
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rail . Pop . (1900) 6743 . It is picturesquely situated on the
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left
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bank of the
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river Sarin; and still has remains of the old walls and towers, with which it was once surrounded . Memorials of a still earlier period in its history—Roman antiquities—are to be seen in the municipal museum, while its canals and sewers are also of
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Roman origin . These were discovered during the second
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half of the 19th century, and were in such a good state of preservation that after a few small repairs they are now utilized . The parish church, dating from the 14th century, with its beautiful
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Gothic
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chapel, is one of the most interesting specimens of
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medieval architecture . The so-called German church, in Romanesque style, belonged to the Minorite monastery, founded in 1241 and closed in 18o8 . The
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throne of the
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counts of Cilli is preserved here, and also the tombs of several members of the
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family . On the Schlossberg (1320 ft.), situated to the S.E. of the town, are the ruins of the castle of Ober-Cilli, the former residence of the counts of Cilli . Ten miles to the N.W. of Cilli are situated the
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baths of Neuhaus, with indifferent thermal waters (117° F.), frequented by ladies .

Not far from it is the ruined castle of Neuhaus, called since 1643 Schlangenburg, from which an extensive view of the neighbouring

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Alps is obtained . Cilli is one of the
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oldest places in Styria, and was probably a
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Celtic settlement . It was taken possession of by the Romans in 15 B.c., and in A.D . 50 the emperor Claudius raised it to a Roman municipium and named it Claudia Celeja . It soon became one of the most flourishing Roman colonies, and possessed numerous
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great buildings, of which the temple of Mars was famous throughout the whole
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empire . It was incorporated with
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Aquileia, under
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Constantine; and towards the end of the 6th century was destroyed by the invading Slays . It had a period of exceptional prosperity from the
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middle of the 14th to the latter half of the 15th century, under the counts of Cilli, on the extinction of which family it fell to Austria . In the 16th century it suffered greatly both from revolts of the peasantry and from the
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Counter-Reformation, Protestantism having made many converts in the
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district, particularly among the nobles . See Glantschnigg, Celeja (Cilli, 1892) .

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