Regional Urban Systems in the Roman World, 150 BCE - 250 CE

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Regional Urban Systems in the Roman World offers comprehensive reconstructions of the urban systems of large parts of the Roman Empire. In accounting for region-specific urban patterns it uses a combination of diachronic and synchronic approaches. ‎Contents ‎Acknowledgements ‎Figures and Tables ‎Abbreviations ‎Notes on Contributors ‎Chapter 1. Introduction (de Ligt and Bintliff) ‎Chapter 2. A World of 200 Oppida: Pre-Roman Urbanism in Temperate Europe (Fernández-Götz) ‎Chapter 3. The Size Distribution of Self-governing Cities in the North-Western Provinces: Trends and Anomalies (Pellegrino) ‎Chapter 4. The Roman ‘Small Towns’ in the Massif Central (civitates of the Arverni, Vellavii, Gabali, Ruteni, Cadurci and Lemovices): Methodology and Main Results (Baret) ‎Chapter 5. Towns, Roads and Development Dynamics in the Territory of the Arverni in Roman Times (Auvergne, France) (Trément, Baret, Dacko, Trescarte, Calbris, Augustin and Massounie) ‎Chapter 6. Urbanisation of the Iberian Peninsula during the Roman Period: Choices, Impositions and ‘Resignation’ of the Newcomers (Rodríguez Gutiérrez) ‎Chapter 7. The Urban Landscape of Roman Central Adriatic Italy (Vermeulen) ‎Chapter 8. The Impact of Roman Rule on the Urban System of Sicily (de Ligt) ‎Chapter 9. Roman Towns and the Settlement Hierarchy of Ancient North Africa: A Bird’s-Eye View (Hobson) ‎Chapter 10. A Diachronic and Regional Approach to North African Urbanism (Stone) ‎Chapter 11. Micro-regional Urbanism: An Ancient Urban Landscape in Roman North Africa (Scheding) ‎Chapter 12. Urbanisation and Population Density: The Case of the ‘Small Municipia’ in the Balkan and Danube Provinces (Donev) ‎Chapter 13. Between the River and the Fort: Applying Critical Regionalism to Roman Towns in the Pannonian Basin (Mladenović) ‎Chapter 14. Urban Networks in Early Roman Macedonia and Aegean Thrace (Karambinis) ‎Chapter 15. Regional Perspectives on Urbanism and Settlement Patterns in Roman Asia Minor (Willet) ‎Chapter 16. From Mountain to Coastal Plain: Settings of Settlements and Stages of Urbanisation in Ancient Lycia (Kolb) ‎Index