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... Roman Empire , which had itself started in the Roman city - state . The growth of Rome as the empire's administrative and economic centre created vast new problems of urban provision and social control . Roman achieve- ments in the ...
... Roman Empire , which had itself started in the Roman city - state . The growth of Rome as the empire's administrative and economic centre created vast new problems of urban provision and social control . Roman achieve- ments in the ...
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... Roman citizenship was acquired by birth if both parents were Roman citi- zens ( cives ) , although one of them , usually the mother , might be a peregrinus ( “ alien " ) with connubium ( the right to contract a Ro- man marriage ) ...
... Roman citizenship was acquired by birth if both parents were Roman citi- zens ( cives ) , although one of them , usually the mother , might be a peregrinus ( “ alien " ) with connubium ( the right to contract a Ro- man marriage ) ...
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... Roman family of great antiquity and importance , descended from the 10th - century counts of Tusculum . The first to take the name Colonna ( " de Columna " ) was Piero , the son of Gregorio , Count of Tusculum , who on Gregorio's death ...
... Roman family of great antiquity and importance , descended from the 10th - century counts of Tusculum . The first to take the name Colonna ( " de Columna " ) was Piero , the son of Gregorio , Count of Tusculum , who on Gregorio's death ...
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