In ancient Rome, the Latin term municipium (pl.: municipia) referred to a town or city. Etymologically, the municipium was a social contract among municipes...

Municipium Iasorum or Res publica Iasorum was an autonomous territory in ancient Roman Pannonia (in present-day Croatia), located in the area around present-day...

(Municipium Turgalium) Municipium Capara (Cáparra), 40°10′00″N 6°06′04″W / 40.1666°N 6.1010°W / 40.1666; -6.1010 (Municipium Capara) Municipium Olisipo...

20°48′36″E / 43.05472°N 20.81000°E / 43.05472; 20.81000 Municipium Dardanorum or Municipium Dardanicum was a Roman mining town whose life lasted from...

many communities in the province the privileged status of colonia or municipium (Roman or Latin), especially along the Levante coast, the part of Baetica...

site was occupied by the Gaulish Boii, and it became a Roman colony and municipium with the name of Bonōnia in 196 BCE. During the waning years of the Western...

derives from the Latin municipalis, based on the word for social contract (municipium), referring originally to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with...

century, Emperor Hadrian (r. 117–38) upgraded the status of Malta to a municipium or free town: the island's local affairs were administered by four quattuorviri...

San Benedetto dei Marsi (Latin: Marruvium, Marrubium; Ancient Greek: Μαρούϊον, romanized: Maroúïon) is a comune and town in the province of L'Aquila in...

Ancona (/æŋˈkoʊnə/, also US: /ænˈ-, ɑːnˈ-/; Italian: [aŋˈkoːna] ) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region of Central Italy, with a population of around...

Vindobona (province of Pannonia) in the 1st century, and was elevated to a municipium with Roman city rights in 212. This was followed by a time in the sphere...

300 BC. Verona became a Roman colonia in 89 BC. It was classified as a municipium in 49 BC, when its citizens were ascribed to the Roman tribe Poblilia...

of the old town. The recently created Municipium Claudium Juvavum was awarded the status of a Roman municipium in 45 CE and has become one of the most...

Artur John Evans, who was the first to pinpoint the Roman town of the Municipium Dardanourm. In the archaeological sites of the region of Mitrovica were...

Halikan (Latin: Halicanum, Halycanum, Alicanum) is an ancient Roman municipium located in present-day Croatia. It is situated in the municipality of Sveti...

Ebora Liberalitas Julia is the name of a Roman municipium that gave rise to the Portuguese district capital Évora in the Alentejo region. While the name...

title of Optimus ('the best') by the Roman Senate. Trajan was born in the municipium of Italica in the present-day Andalusian province of Seville in southern...

1st century AD and, by the mid-2nd century, the city was proclaimed a municipium by the Roman authorities, evolving into a full-fledged colonia (the highest...

the second province was Mauretania Tingitana and were deemed as Roman Municipiums, additionally they were given Latin rights by the emperor Vespasian....

the repository of more than 2000 years of history. Successively a Roman municipium, the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom, a major city in Al-Andalus and...

was in modern-day Annaba, Algeria. Augustine was born in 354 in the municipium of Thagaste (now Souk Ahras, Algeria) in the Roman province of Numidia...

it is believed that Ulpiana was established as a Roman municipium in 169 AD, called Municipium Ulpianum. Nonetheless, Ulpiana achieved its peak of development...

torturing and killing everyone who had remained. The rebels also sacked the municipium of Verulamium (modern St Albans), north-west of London, though the extent...

agrarian reform. The second most prestigious class of cities was the municipium (plural municipia). Municipia had originally been communities of non-citizens...

(variant(s)) Type English Name (native language(s)) Aeminium Municipium Coimbra Aquae Flaviae Municipium Chaves Ammaia Villa São Salvador da Aramenha, Marvão...

Tusculum becomes the first "municipium cum suffragio", and thenceforth the city continues to hold the rank of a municipium. Wu Qi, Chinese military general...

military stations on the Via Aemilia. However, it was a flourishing city, a Municipium with its own statutes, magistrates and art colleges. Apollinaris of Ravenna...

gradually became the most important Roman city of the region. It became a municipium during the reign of Emperor Trajan (98–117). Serdica expanded, as turrets...

Londinium, developed from the Iron Age settlement and was granted the rank of municipium around AD 50, meaning that its citizens had what were known as "Latin...

Thagaste became a Roman municipium in the first century of Roman domination. The city was mentioned by Pliny the Elder. As a municipium, Thagaste was settled...