Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal: civitates Hispaniae of the Early Empire

"The principal aims of the book Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal: Civitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire are to provide a comprehensive reconstruction of the urban systems of the Iberian Peninsula during the Early Empire and to explain why these systems looked the way they did. While s...

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1. Verfasser: Houten, Pieter Hubert Antoine 1984- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2021
Schriftenreihe:Studies in Roman space and urbanism
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Online-Zugang:DE-188
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Zusammenfassung:"The principal aims of the book Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal: Civitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire are to provide a comprehensive reconstruction of the urban systems of the Iberian Peninsula during the Early Empire and to explain why these systems looked the way they did. While some chapters focus on settlements that were cities or towns from a juridical point of view, the implications of using a purely functional definition of towns are also explored. Key themes include continuities and discontinuities between pre-Roman and Roman settlement patterns, the geographical distribution of cities belonging to various size brackets, economic relationships between self-governing cities and their territories, and the role of cities as nodes in road systems and maritime networks. In addition, it is argued that a considerable number of self-governing communities in Roman Spain and Portugal were polycentric rather based on a single urban centre. The volume will be of interest to anyone working on Roman urbanism as well as those interested in the Iberian Peninsula in the Roman Period"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:9781003022800
DOI:10.4324/9781003022800

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