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The province 'Germania inferior' is an interesting candidate for investigating town-country relations. While its southern part borders on the distribution area of oppida, its northern parts had no Iron Age tradition of large settlement agglomerations. Nonetheless, in the Roman period towns were founded here: the 'Colonia Ulpia Traiana' (Xanten), 'Ulpia Noviomagus' (Nijmegen) and 'Forum Hadriani/Municipium Aelium Cananefatium' (Voorburg). An important economic agent of the time was the Roman army with its numerous forts along the Lower German Limes. These massive and new agglomerations of persons that were not primarily involved in food production must have posed a challenge to the supply of provisions – in food as well as other commodities. This panel summarises and compares the town-country relationshipsin two 'civitates': the 'civitas Cugernorum' with its capital 'Colonia Ulpia Traiana' and the civitas Batavorum with its capital 'Municipium Ulpia Noviomagus'. What supply strategies for the towns can be discerned? In what way did the primary centres influence the countryside? Are there differences between the 'civitates'? Do they differ from those in the southern parts of 'Germani

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Author

Marion Brüggler, Julia Obladen-Kauder, Harry van Enckevort (eds.)

Publisher

Propylaeum, specialized information service classics

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9783948465872

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Archaeology, Humanities