Municipium

A municipium was the second highest class of a Roman city, and was inferior in status to the colonia.

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Municipia were usually previous important tribal centres, taken over with formal chartered status. Unlike the latter, its citizens were not full Roman citizens (but its magistrates could become so after retirement), but they partook of the duties of full citizens in terms of their liability to taxes and military service. A municipium was governed by a council of four annually elected officials.

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The only known Municipium in Roman Britain was St Albans, then called Verulamium.

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Roman: Roman or Romans has several meanings, primarily related to the Roman citizens, but also applicable to typography, math, and several geographic locations....

Colonia: A colonia was a Roman outpost, usually established by veterans of a Roman Legion, who received land as a part of their retirement from the Legions. In time the term evolved to denote the highest status of a Roman city....

Roman Britain: Roman Britain is the term applied to that part of Britain lying within the Roman Empire (which never extended to the whole island). This is usually thought of in relation to the period AD 44 to 410. Prior to the Roman invasion, Iron Age Britain already had close cultural and economic links with the ...