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Interesting factoid... many cities with imperial ambitions were built on areas with seven hills , as Rome is/was.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_claimed_to_be...

many capital cities in the above list, including Constantinople, capital of Byzantium and Moscow, Russia which considers itself the heir of Byzantium. Plus Albany NY, Seattle WA, San Francisco (not a capital but an important city in CA).

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I’d probably question that given how many cities want to be a new rome and how famous Rome’s seven hills are. It’s easy to pick any collection of seven hills in a city that has more hills than that and say they’re ‘the’ seven hills of the city.

The trick is to do it with less than seven hills.

"But that last hill is just a landfill"

This at least would not be out of character for Rome:

Monte Testaccio is an artificial mound in Rome composed almost entirely of testae (Italian: cocci), fragments of broken ancient Roman pottery, nearly all discarded amphorae dating from the time of the Roman Empire[.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Testaccio

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