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In Ancient Rome, a civitas, sometimes translated as "city", was the social body of the cives, or citizens, united by their laws, which gave them responsibilities on the one hand, and rights on the oth
A Roman military diploma, or certificate of successful military service, granting citizenship to a retiring soldier and the dependents he had with him at the time. The key phrase is "est civitas eis data" where civitas means "citizenship".
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In ancient Rome, the dediticii or peregrini dediticii were a class of free provincials who were neither slaves nor citizens holding either full Roman citizenship as cives or Latin rights as Latini.
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…their name, with the later civita or civida as reflexes. As the empire grew, inhabitants of the outlying Roman provinces would either be classed as dediticii, meaning "capitulants", or be treated as client states with some independence guaranteed through treaties. There were three categories of autonomous…
In this inscription from AD 232, Walldürn, Roman Germany, Alexandrian dediticii join two scouts (exploratores) in a dedication to Dea Fortuna after the restoration of the decrepit baths at their military outpost.
The fragmentary papyrus of the Constitutio Antoniniana