• A civitas foederata, meaning "allied state/community", was the most elevated type of autonomous cities and local communities under Roman rule. Each Roman...
    3 KB (279 words) - 16:48, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lebanese Shia Muslims
    the Romans and was allowed to keep much of its independence as a "civitas foederata". On the other hand, Jabal Amel was inhabited by Banu Amilah, its...
    68 KB (7,677 words) - 15:24, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nicopolis
    city (civitas libera Nicopolitana) i.e. a polis (Greek city), free and autonomous, having the characteristics of civitas libera and civitas foederata, linked...
    27 KB (3,658 words) - 17:57, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Athenian democracy
    Athenians declared for Rome, and in 146 BC Athens became an autonomous civitas foederata, able to manage internal affairs. This allowed Athens to practice...
    84 KB (11,466 words) - 01:03, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Locri Epizephyrii
    this, Locri was called upon to respect its military obligations as civitas foederata to provide triremes for the Roman fleet in 191 BC in the first war...
    57 KB (8,986 words) - 13:02, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Taormina
    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...
    28 KB (3,800 words) - 16:54, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Tyre, Lebanon
    Roman Empire. Tyre was allowed to keep much of its independence as a "civitas foederata". A decree found at Tyre implies that Marcus Aemilius Scaurus — Pompey's...
    199 KB (24,245 words) - 00:27, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Campania
    BC and allowed it to remain a Greek city with some autonomy as a civitas foederata while strongly aligned with Rome. The Second Samnite War ended with...
    93 KB (8,792 words) - 01:29, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Macedonia (Roman province)
    cities' (civitates liberae), and Edessa was probably an 'allied city' (civitas foederata). In the Republican period a cult of "the Roman Benefactors" (Rhomaioi...
    46 KB (5,133 words) - 11:33, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ascoli Piceno
    city. Following its defeat by the Romans in 268 BC, Asculum became a civitas foederata, a "federated" city with nominal independence from Rome. It was later...
    17 KB (1,847 words) - 23:01, 4 September 2024