civitates
- plural of civitas.
Example Sentences
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When the legions departed, the neatly defined "civitates" quickly frayed as rivalries resurfaced.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2014
The Greek and Roman world was made up, in the last analysis, of an aggregation of civitates, or city states.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin
Utica became a Roman colony under Hadrian, and the civitates liberae, municipia, castella, pagi and turres were peopled with Latins.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
They still preserved in their municipal institutions the old style of republicas derived from the civitates and respublicae of ancient Rome.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
The towns which had fought on the side of the Romans during the Third Punic War were declared civitates liberae, and became exceedingly prosperous.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
