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Claudius also settled disputes in the provinces.

He freed the island of Rhodes from Roman rule for their good faith and exempted Troy from taxes.

Early in his reign, the Greeks and Jews of Alexandria sent him two embassies at once after riots broke out between the two communities.

This resulted in the famous " Letter to the Alexandrians ", which reaffirmed Jewish rights in the city but also forbade them to move in more families en masse.

According to Josephus, he then reaffirmed the rights and freedoms of all the Jews in the Empire.

One of Claudius's investigators discovered that many old Roman citizens based in the modern city of Trento were not in fact citizens.

The Emperor issued a declaration that they would be considered to hold citizenship from then on, since to strip them of their status would cause major problems.

However, in individual cases, Claudius punished false assumption of citizenship harshly, making it a capital offense.

Similarly, any freedmen found to be impersonating equestrians were sold back into slavery.