Ager Romanus
In a narrower sense, referring Latin expression Ager Romanus ( Italian Agro Romano , literally "Roman field") in the vicinity of the city of Rome , it was geographically convenient label for the Roman level, so the Tiber level in the province of Lazio , it was political as a term for the area of responsibility and influence of the Roman city government. The exact extent of the administrative districts and suburbs belonging to the city of Rome was expressly determined by a decree of Pope Pius VII in 1817 (see Rome's urban structure ).
Nowadays, the Romans refer to the outer districts of Rome, which often still have a more rural character, as Agro Romano . As a rule, this also includes the municipalities of Ardea , Fiumicino and Pomezia , which were spun off from the municipality of Rome only a few years ago.
In a further sense derived from the first, the term Ager Romanus denotes the Roman territory that changed over the course of the history of the Roman Empire , i.e. H. the area inhabited by Roman citizens at the time . The borders of this "field", also known as "the Roman domain", were redefined again and again through the expansion of Rome.
From a cultural-historical point of view, today all those landscapes can be counted as part of the Ager Romanus in the broadest sense, which were once ruled by the Romans and in which traces of Roman settlement and culture can be found. In the German-speaking area, for example, the Rhineland and the areas south of the Limes belong to the Ager Romanus , while large parts of northern and eastern Germany hardly came into contact with the Romans and have a correspondingly lower cultural wealth .
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- ↑ The Roman domain (ager Romanus)
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↑ See Wilfried Koch (2003 in the explanatory panel on his memorial to the dying Varus in Haltern am See ):
- With the fall of Roman supremacy east of the Rhine, the Germanic peoples remained excluded from the highly developed Roman culture for centuries.