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South Liburnia at the beginning of the Principate : jurisdiction and territorial organization

The article is offering an overview of present state of studies on the territorial organization of the Southern part of Roman Liburnia under the Principate. During the Late Liburnian Period, starting at the beginning of the 4th century BC, it was possible to trace the processes of growing acculturation as a result of continuous strengthening of relations with the Hellenistic world. Liburnia came under Roman control probably about the late 2nd cent. BC: at the time there could exist about forty communities ; about hallf of them possibly enough developed to be classified as oppida by the Romans. Some communities developped into urban centers well before the Augustan era, the period when the region enters into the province of Dalmatia. Several specific problems are elaborated: the geographical background of the native development, Pre-Roman South Liburnian communities, and the Augustan settlement and later changes during the 1st cent. AD. There is also an analysis of data concerning the inscriptions of the mid 1st. cent. AD bearing witness of the boundary settlements from eraly reign of Tiberius up to the end of the reign of Nero, trying to make some more precise conclusions about possibilities to trace the boundaries of the municipal/civitas' territories (Asseria, Nedinum, Corinium, Alveria etc.).

Liburnia; Liburnian community; municipalization; territorial organization; Roman administration; boundary settlement

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