Gerión (Jul 2017)

Augustus and the Middle Ebro Valley

  • Francisco Beltrán Lloris

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5209/GERI.56160
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 35, no. Esp.
pp. 525 – 540

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This paper examines the policy of foundations and promotions to municipal status (Latin and Roman) that Augustus carried out in the middle Ebro Valley. This policy substantially changed this region and contributed to its recovery after a period of civil wars, which had affected it particularly.

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