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== Regions where centuriation was used == Even today, in some parts of Italy, the landscape of the plain is determined by the outcome of Roman centuriation, with the persistence of straight elements (roads, drainage canals, property divisions) which have survived territorial development and are often basic elements of urbanisation, at least until the twentieth century, when the human pressure of urban growth and infrastructures destroyed many of the traces scattered throughout the agricultural countryside.
=== Significant examples of centuriation in Italy ===
Cesena, and in particular the country to the north-east and north-west of the city; Central Romagna; Padua, eastern area of the province; in this area of Venetia, the geometrical layout of the landscape is known as the Graticolato Romano; Ager Campanus (Acerra, Capua, Nola, Atella); Florence (Florentia), first century CE, in the plain to the west to Prato and beyond. Province of Bergamo: There are still several easily identifiable traces, from the low plain almost to the foot of the hills, for example, the straight road of about ten kilometres between Spirano and Stezzano, through Comun Nuovo; there are also traces of agricultural centuriation identifiable in the street network of Treviglio.
=== Traces of centuriation in Gallia Narbonensis (Southern France) ===
Béziers Valence Orange (Orange B)
=== Traces of centuriation in Hispania === Tarragona Empúries Girona Barcelona Cerdanya Isona (Pallars Jussà) Guissona Lleida els Prats de Rei (antiga Segarra romana) la Seu d'Urgell o Castellciutat (probable) Bages (probable) Castell-rosselló (probable) Sagunt (Saguntum)
=== Traces of centuriation in Britannia (present-day southern and central Britain) === Ripe, Sussex (probable) Great Wymondley, Hertfordshire (Roman field system identified, possibly part of a cadastre) Worthing, Sussex (probable)
=== Traces of centuriation in Dacia (present-day south-western Romania) === Sarmisegetuza (including pagii Micia and Aquae) Apulum (probable)
== See also ==
Ancient Roman units of measurement Ancient Roman architecture, Roman roads Drainage and centuriation in the Po Valley and Po delta Ager Romanus Aerial archaeology
== References ==
== Bibliography == In English:
Bell, Anders (2001). "Castra et urbs romana: An Examination of the Common Features of Roman Settlements in Italy and the Empire and a System to aid in the Discovery of their Origins". CAC Undergraduate Essay Contest for 2000-2001. Classical Association of Canada. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2011-10-01. Oswald A. W. Dilke The Roman Land Surveyors, 1992 (1971), ISBN 90-256-1000-5 Norman Joseph William Thrower, Maps & civilization: cartography in culture and society, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1972 In Italian:
Umberto Laffi, Studi di storia romana e di diritto, 2001, ISBN 88-87114-70-6 Giacinto Libertini, Persistenza di luoghi e toponimi nelle terre delle antiche città di Atella e Acerrae, 1999 In French:
A. Piganiol, « Les documents annexes du cadastre d'Orange », CRAI, 1954, 98–3, p. 302–310 lire en ligne In German:
Flach, D. (1990). Römische Agrargeschichte. Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft (in German). Verlag C. H. Beck. ISBN 978-3-406-33989-9. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
== Further reading == In English:
Blair, John; Rippon, Stephen; Smart, Christopher (2020). Planning in the Early Medieval Landscape. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1-78962-116-7. Kerridge, Ronald; Standing, Michael (2005). Worthing. Teffont: The Francis Frith Collection. ISBN 978-1-85937-995-0. In Catalan and Spanish:
L'Avenç. Revista d'Història, núm. 167, febrer 1993. Dossier: "Els cadastres en època romana. Història i recerca", pàgs. 18–57. E. Ariño – J. M. Gurt – J. M. Palet, El pasado presente. Arqueología de los paisajes en la Hispania romana, Universidad de Salamanca – Universitat de Barcelona, Salamanca – Barcelona, 2004. ISBN 84-475-2804-9 In French:
A. Caillemer, R. Chevalier, « Les centuriations de l'Africa vetus », Annales, 1954, 9–4, p. 433–460 lire en ligne André Chastagnol, « Les cadastres de la colonie romaine d'Orange », Annales, 1965, 20–1, p. 152–159 lire en ligne Col., « Fouilles d'un limes du cadastre B d'Orange à Camaret (Vaucluse) », DHA, 17–2, 1991, p. 224 lire en ligne Gérard Chouquer, François Favory, Les Paysages de l'Antiquité. Terres et cadastres de l'occident romain, Errance, Paris, 1991, 243 p. Gérard Chouquer, « Un débat méthodologique sur les centuriations », DHA, 1993, 19–2, p. 360–363 lire en ligne Claire Marchand, « Des centuriations plus belles que jamais ? Proposition d'un modèle dynamique d'organisation des formes », Études Rurales, 167–168, 2003, 3–4, p. 93–113 lire en ligne. L.R. Decramer, R. Elhaj, R. Hilton, A. Plas, « Approches géométrique des centuriations romaines. Les nouvelles bornes du Bled Segui », Histoire et Mesure, XVII, 1/2, 2002, p. 109–162 lire en ligne Gérard Chouquer, « Les transformations récentes de la centuriation. Une autre lecture de l'arpentage romain », Annales, 2008–4, p. 847–874.