Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name)
5. inhabited places
6. [settlements by form]
7. cities

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to certain cities, towns, or colonies in the Roman Empire and Republic, or later on the Italian peninsula, originally where citizens assumed communal obligation in exchange for the privileges and protections of citizenship. Eventually two orders of municipia developed, one where citizens had the right to vote and other rights if Roman, the other with lesser rights if they were tribal centers under Roman control.