municipium

municipium

▪ ancient Roman government
plural  municipia 

      ok hb 6/11/07in antiquity, a community incorporated into the Roman state after the dissolution of the Latin League. Initially, inhabitants of such municipalities were considered Roman citizens without voting rights. As the Italian provinces were incorporated into the Roman state, residents of the municipia who moved to Rome were registered in the tribes and accorded full political rights. Voting rights were granted to some cities, and they maintained a certain amount of autonomy, for they were permitted to retain their own governments as well as their local magistrates, who had limited judicial and financial powers. However, the municipia remained under the jurisdiction of Rome in matters of foreign policy, and they supplied Rome with troops and were not permitted to mint money. After the Social War (90–89 BC) all Latin and Italian communities became municipia of Roman citizens.

      The municipium system prevailed largely in Latin-speaking provinces but seldom occurred in the north or in the Greek-speaking eastern provinces. The chief sources of income for the municipia were donations from wealthy municipes (citizens of municipia), export and import taxes, and revenue from city lands. In the provincial municipia the local aristocracy constituted a council (see decurio) that supervised local politics and finances, thus subordinating the powers of the magistrates. The municipia system allowed and encouraged the Romanization of western Europe. When Roman citizenship was granted to most inhabitants of the empire in AD 212, the system became obsolete.

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