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 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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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....

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...

The Roman city of Cáparra. Municipium Flavium Caparense. Guijo de Granadilla: Roman ruins of Cáparra E. Cerrillo. Municipium Flavium Caparensis in the...

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...

Retrieved 2022-02-12. Río-Miranda Alcón, J. La ciudad romana de Cáparra - Municipium Flavium Caparense. 2011 "Guaynabo -- Encyclopædia Britannica" (with history...

capital of the Libici or Lebecili, a Ligurian tribe; it became an important municipium, near which Gaius Marius defeated the Cimbri and the Teutones in the Battle...

: fora; English pl.: either fora or forums) was a public square in a municipium, or any civitas, of Ancient Rome reserved primarily for the vending of...

pagus of Trajan's colony Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa. It was upgraded to municipium Aurelium Apulense by Marcus Aurelius. During emperor Commodus' reign its...