Regional urban systems in the Roman world, 150 BCE-250 CE / edited by Luuk de Ligt, John Bintliff.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, Supplements ; Volume 431
• TeilnehmendeR: De Ligt, Luuk,; Bintliff, J. L.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity ; Volume 431.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The focus of Regional Urban Systems in the Roman World is on urban hierarchies and interactions in large geographical areas rather than on individual cities. Based on a painstaking examination of archaeological and epigraphic evidence relating to more than 1,000 cities, the volume offers comprehensive reconstructions of the urban systems of Roman Gaul, North Africa, Sicily, Greece and Asia Minor. In addition it examines the transformation of the settlement systems of the Iberian Peninsula and the central and northern Balkan following the imposition of Roman rule. Throughout the volume regional urban configurations are examined from a rich variety of perspectives, ranging from climate and landscape, administration and politics, economic interactions and social relationships all the way to region-specific ways of shaping the townscapes of individual cities.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Luuk de Ligt and John Bintliff -- A World of 200 Oppida: Pre-Roman Urbanism in Temperate Europe / Manuel Fernández-Götz -- The Size Distribution of Self-governing Cities in the North-Western Provinces: Trends and Anomalies / Frida Pellegrino -- The Roman ‘Small Towns’ in the Massif Central (civitates of the Arverni, Vellavii, Gabali, Ruteni, Cadurci and Lemovices): Methodology and Main Results / Florian Baret -- Towns, Roads and Development Dynamics in the Territory of the Arverni in Roman Times (Auvergne, France) / Frédéric Trément, Florian Baret, Marion Dacko, Jérôme Trescarte, Maxime Calbris, Lise Augustin and Guy Massounie -- Urbanisation of the Iberian Peninsula during the Roman Period: Choices, Impositions and ‘Resignation’ of the Newcomers / Oliva Rodríguez Gutiérrez -- The Urban Landscape of Roman Central Adriatic Italy / Frank Vermeulen -- The Impact of Roman Rule on the Urban System of Sicily / Luuk de Ligt -- Roman Towns and the Settlement Hierarchy of Ancient North Africa: A Bird’s-Eye View / Matthew Hobson -- A Diachronic and Regional Approach to North African Urbanism / David Stone -- Micro-regional Urbanism: An Ancient Urban Landscape in Roman North Africa / Paul Scheding -- Urbanisation and Population Density: The Case of the ‘Small Municipia’ in the Balkan and Danube Provinces / Damjan Donev -- Between the River and the Fort: Applying Critical Regionalism to Roman Towns in the Pannonian Basin / Dragana Mladenović -- Urban Networks in Early Roman Macedonia and Aegean Thrace / Michalis Karambinis -- Regional Perspectives on Urbanism and Settlement Patterns in Roman Asia Minor / Rinse Willet -- From Mountain to Coastal Plain: Settings of Settlements and Stages of Urbanisation in Ancient Lycia / Frank Kolb -- Back Matter -- Index.