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Free city (classical antiquity)

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was the name given by the Greeks to those states which were governed by their own laws, and were not subject to any foreign power. This name was also given to those cities subject to the Romans, which were permitted to enjoy their own laws, and elect their own magistrates. This permission was
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Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, Guy Thompson Griffith, and Frank William Walbank. A History of Macedonia: Volume II: 550-336 B.C. Clarendon Press, 1979, Page 351,
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regarded as a great privilege, and mark of honour; and it is accordingly found recorded on coins and medals (e.g. Metropolis of the Antiochians autonomous).
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eras. The status was given by the king or emperor, who nevertheless supervised the city's affairs through his
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The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians By George Gillanders Findlay Page 10
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rule, numerous cities enjoyed autonomy and issued coins; some of them, like
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Municipal Administration in the Roman Empire By Frank Frost Abbott
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Omnes suis legibus et judiciis usae autonomian adeptae, revixerunt
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Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire By Mary T Boatwright
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continued to be free cities, even after the Roman conquest by
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was also constituted a free city by Augustus, its founder.
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to devise new laws which he modelled on those given by
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Index

Free city (antiquity)
Latin
Greek
Hellenistic
Roman Imperial
epistates
curator
Amphipolis
Macedonian kingdom
Cassandreia
Philippi
Seleucid
Seleucia
Tarsus
Pompey
Nicopolis
Thessalonica
battle of Philippi
Athens
Hadrian
Draco
Solon
IG II² 3301
Paliki
Trajan
ISBN
0-19-814814-3
Arnold Hugh Martin Jones
ISBN
1-4372-9209-7

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