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civitas and common
Around 400 AD, the primitive form, Juliomagus, is replaced by the term civitas, forming civitas Andecavorum, a common change in Gaul also visible in the names of Paris, Tours or Évreux which then started to use the name of the local Gallic tribes.
Remains of the Roman civitas are still common: Praesidium ( in Vila da Ponte, popularly known as Sabaraz ) and Caladunum ( in Cervos ).

civitas and Roman
The town was known as Rigomagensium under the Roman Empire and was the capital of a civitas ( a provincial subdivision ), though no Roman money has yet been found in the canton of Barcelonnette.
As an example of how the word natio was employed in classical Latin, the following quote from Cicero's Philippics Against Mark Antony in 44 BC contrasts the external, inferior nationes (" races of people ") with the Roman civitas (" community "):
Its political origin is traced to the ancient Gallic state of the Andes, on the lines of which was organized, after the conquest by Julius Caesar, the Roman civitas of the Andecavi.
After the Roman conquest of Britain, this town became the capital of the local tribe or civitas, known as the Belgae, a confederation of Gaulish tribes who conquered large parts of the southern Britain beginning around 100 BCE.
From 36 BC recognized as a Roman civitas.
The Roman consul Quintus Publilius Filo recaptured Neapolis by 326 BC and allowed it to remain a Greek city with some autonomy as a civitas foederata while strongly aligned with Rome.
Roman Pompaelo was located in the province of Hispania Tarraconensis, on the Ab Asturica Burdigalam, the road from Burdigala ( modern Bordeaux ) to Asturica ( modern Astorga ); it was a civitas stipendiaria in the jurisdiction of the conventus of Caesaraugusta ( modern Zaragoza ).
The created civitas was the only walled-town in the entire north west region of Roman Britain, and for this reason it is reasonable to assume that the settlement did exist and served as a tribal centre for the Carvetii before Roman occupancy, following the pattern of other civitates made by the Romans.
The word originates from the ancient Greek city-states, which developed during the Archaic period, the ancestor of city, state and citizenship, and persisted ( though with decreasing influence ) well into Roman times, when the equivalent Latin word was civitas, also meaning ' citizenhood ', while municipium applied to a non-sovereign local entity.
The territory of the Hwicce may roughly have corresponded to the Roman civitas of the Dobunni.
Early in the history of the Roman Republic, a foederatus identified one of the tribes bound by treaty ( foedus ), who were neither Roman colonies nor had they been granted Roman citizenship ( civitas ) but were expected to provide a contingent of fighting men when trouble arose, thus were allies.
Calleva Atrebatum ( or Silchester Roman Town ) was an Iron Age oppidum and subsequently a town in the Roman province of Britannia and the civitas capital of the Atrebates tribe.
Campania now somehow became firmly attached to Rome ; it may have been granted Roman citizenship without the right to vote in Rome ( civitas sine suffragio ).
Cumae came under Roman rule with Capua and in 338 was granted partial citizenship, a civitas sine suffragio.
A town in the provinces might adopt a deity from within the Roman religious sphere to serve as its guardian, or syncretize its own tutelary with such ; for instance, a community within the civitas of the Remi in Gaul adopted Apollo as its tutelary, and at the capital of the Remi ( present-day Rheims ), the tutelary was Mars Camulus.
It became a Roman civitas in 168 BC, and was a base for Brutus and Cassius in 42 BC, before their defeat in the Battle of Philippi.
The region that corresponded with modern Cornwall was found within the Roman administrative region of civitas Dumnoniorum, so-called because the Romans referred to the local British Iron Age tribal group as the Dumnonii.
The former Roman district of civitas Dumnoniorum apparently became the Kingdom of Dumnonia, which would have been ruled over by its own monarchy during this Early Mediaeval period between the fifth and eighth centuries.
However, a different settlement – the civitas Zuib ( or Sulb ; both names recall the Roman Solva ) – was actually closer to the site of the present town than the civitas Lipnizza which was located on the nearby Frauenberg hill, where human occupation had persisted since the Neolithic age.

civitas and administrative
The new administrative unit of Speyer was similar to that of the civitas Nemetum.
Therefore, the territory had to be nearly repopulated ; and the Romans, in contrast to the practise they had followed when setting up a new province, did not organise the indigenous population into specific administrative units ( civitas peregrina ) in Dacia.
Pengwern and Powys may have been divisions of the pre-Roman Cornovii tribal federation whose civitas or administrative centre was Viroconium Cornoviorum ( now Wroxeter ).
Surviving northern boundaries of the administrative region, or civitas that included Dorset, reached as far as Selwood, and mark the county division between Somerset and Wiltshire to this day.
The kingdom was divided for administrative purposes into small areas called pagi ( hence French pays ; German Gaue ), corresponding generally to the Roman civitas.
Early Powys, much larger in extent than the later medieval kingdom, seems to have roughly coincided with the territory of the Celtic Cornovii tribe whose civitas capital or administrative centre was Viroconium Cornoviorum ( now Wroxeter ).

civitas and term
While Bayreuth was previously ( 1199 ) referred to as a villa ( village ), the term civitas (" town ") appeared for the first time in a document published in 1231.
The royal burghs of Edinburgh and Perth anciently used the title civitas, but the term city does not seem to have been used prior to the fifteenth century.
Bodin invoked Pythagoras in discussing justice and in Book IV used ideas related to the Utopia of Thomas More The use of language derived from or replacing Niccolò Machiavelli's città ( Latin civitas ) as political unit ( French cité or ville ) is thoughtful ; Bodin introduced republic ( French république, Latin respublica ) as a term for matters of public law ( the contemporary English rendering was commonweal ( th )).
In the history of Rome, the Latin term civitas ( plural civitates ), according to Cicero in the time of the late Roman Republic, was the social body of the cives, or citizens, united by law ( concilium coetusque hominum jure sociati ).

civitas and both
Ralph Vaughan Williams composed both kinds: " festival " cantatas such as Toward the Unknown Region ( 1907 ), Five Mystical Songs ( 1911 ), and Five Tudor Portraits ( 1936 ), and sacred cantatas including Sancta civitas ( 1926 ), Benedicite ( 1930 ), Dona nobis pacem ( 1936 ), and Hodie ( 1954 ).

civitas and city
The word civilization comes from the Latin civilis, meaning civil, related to the Latin civis, meaning citizen, and civitas, meaning city or city-state.
The first official document that mentions the city dates to November 925 ; it documents a civitas denominated Melfi, situated on a peninsula named Sant ' Andrea.
The army was structured decimally with the highest unit, the thiufa, probably corresponding to about 1, 000 people from each civitas ( city district ).
A Croat ( coin ) | croat minted at Barcelona, bearing the image of Peter and the words Petrus Dei gracia rex ( Peter by the grace of God king ) and civitas Barcenona ( city of Barelona )
Where there was the village of Arse-durgui they built the city of Urgell ( in Latin civitas Orgellia and in Catalan ciutat d ' Urgell ) and here lies the origin of the name Castellciutat.
In 6th-century CE imperial documents, it was referred to as " holiest city ," sacratissima civitas.
In 1503 king Ferdinand III gave it the title of civitas ingeniosa (" ingenious city ").
For we learn from Cicero that Tauromenium was one of the three cities in Sicily which enjoyed the privileges of a civitas foederata or allied city, thus retaining a nominal independence, and was not even subject, like Messana, to the obligation of furnishing ships of war when called upon.
The Roman emperor Caesar Augustus made the city a colony for veterans of his legions following the Battle of Actium, proclaiming it a civitas libera ( free town ).
In 89 BC, Brixia was recognized as civitas (" city ") and in 41 BC its inhabitants received Roman citizenship.
In 268 BC it became a civitas foederata, a " federated " city with nominal independence from Rome.
By the time the city had become fully established as a civitas capital, Viroconium had seen great expansion, with all the usual trappings of a classical Roman settlement including the forum basilica, shops and, of course, the baths.
Roman occupation of the area was confirmed by archaeological excavations, revealing the existence of a Roman city civitas near the hilltop on which the village and castle were established.
It is at the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum, which was the fourth largest civitas capital in Roman Britain.
Wroxeter is on the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum, which was the fourth largest civitas capital in Roman Britain.
In a likely scenario, the holder would take the sealed diploma to the province or civitas ( city / county ) where he intended to live in retirement.
However, as civitas can also mean " city " and Latin neuter nouns often end in-um in the nominative singular, this phrase has been misinterpreted by Geoffrey or his sources as " the city Trinovantum ".
In Latin, civitas does not signify city, but rather a collectivity of citizens of a determined community.
Saluzzo ( Salusse in Piemontese ) was a civitas ( tribal city state ) of the Vagienni, or mountain Ligures, and later of the Salluvii.

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