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Province, 117 CE

Italia

Roman heartland — not a provinceCapital: Rome

Italy was never a province — it was the empire's metropole, its free citizens exempt from the land tax every provincial paid. Augustus split it into eleven administrative regions for the census, from Latium et Campania around Rome to Venetia et Histria in the northeast. By 117 CE the whole peninsula had been Roman for two centuries and its cities competed for imperial building projects, not survival.

Never a province — Italy was Roman heartland since the peninsula's political unification under the Republic, well before this map's snapshot. Augustus's eleven census regions (7 BCE) organized it for administration, not conquest.

Cities on the map

266 places on the map

Sources

  • Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
  • Pliny the Elder, Natural History 3

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