Rome is the largest city in and the county seat of Floyd County, Georgia, United States. Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, it is the principal city of the Rome, Georgia, metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses whatever of Floyd County. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 37,713. It is the largest city in Northwest Georgia and the 26th-largest city in the state.

Rome was founded in 1834, after Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, and the federal government on the go to removing the Cherokee and further Native Americans from the Southeast. It developed upon former native territory at the confluence of the Etowah and the Oostanaula rivers, which together form the Coosa River. Because of its strategic advantages, this area was long occupied by the historic Creek. Later the Cherokee people expanded into this Place from their normal homelands to the east and northeast. National leaders such as Major Ridge and John Ross resided here back Indian Removal in 1838.

The city has developed on seven hills gone the rivers admin between them, a feature that inspired the in the future European-American settlers to say it for Rome, the longtime capital of Italy that was furthermore built upon seven hills. The American Rome developed in the antebellum times as a announce and trading city due to its advantageous location on the rivers. It shipped the rich regional cotton commodity crop downriver to markets on the Gulf Coast and export overseas.

In the late 1920s, a United States company built a rayon plant in a joint project later an Italian company. This project and the American city of Rome were fortunate by Italy in 1929, when its duce Benito Mussolini sent a replica of the statue of Romulus and Remus nursing from a mom wolf, a fable of the founding myth of the indigenous Rome.