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[[File:The Growth of Roman Power in Italy.jpg|thumb|Roman territory {{Circa|100 BC}}]]
Geographically, the '''Ager Romanus''' (Italian - ''Agro Romano'') is the name given to the immense rural area (part plains, part hilly) around the city of [[Rome]]. Politically and historically, it has represented the area of influence of Rome's municipal government. It is delimited to the south by [[Monti Prenestini]], by the [[Alban hills]] and the [[Pontine Marshes|pianura pontina]]; to the west by the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]]; to the north by the hills surrounding [[Lake Bracciano]] and to the [[east]] by the [[Monti Tiburtini]].▼
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==History==
===Ancient Rome===
The Rome of [[Romulus]]
With the proclamation of the [[Roman Republic]] in 509 BC, all the territory occupied by Romans in "[[Old Latium|Latium vetus]]" came to be proclaimed [[ager publicus]], equivalent to state lands today, which were held by the state and could be granted to private citizens.<ref name="LigtNorthwood2008">{{cite book |last1=de Ligt |first1=Luuk |last2=Northwood |first2=S J |title=People, Land, and Politics: Demographic Developments and the Transformation of Roman Italy 300 BC-AD 14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4toKjuTLOQUC&pg=PA245 |year=2008 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-17118-3 |pages=245ff }}</ref> The Roman municipal authorities of this era were the [[consul]]s. In effect, Rome was a gigantic city-territory continuously expanding across Europe.<ref name="Fulminante2014">{{cite book |last=Fulminante |first=Francesca |title=The Urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus: From the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XE5kAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA123 |date=10 February 2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-03035-0 |pages=123ff }}</ref>
[[Augustus|Octavian Augustus]] founded the office of ''[[praefectus
▲[[Augustus|Octavian Augustus]] founded the office of [[praefectus urbis]] and other offices which divided the administration of the city of Rome from that of the Roman Empire. Thus was solved the problem of delimiting the territory of the [[municipium]] of Rome from the territory of the rest of the empire - besides the Regio I Latii et Campaniae administered by a specific governor, the confines of the municipal authority of Rome came to be fixed at the "centesimum lapidem" (ie one hundred miles) on each of the [[:Category:Roman roads in Italy|via consularis]] converging on Rome. So, ''de jure'', the Roman municipal authority controlled the whole of [[Lazio]] and part of Tuscany from [[Talamone]] to [[Terracina]] and also parts of [[Abruzzo]] and [[Umbria]].
The same territorial division was confirmed by the re-subdivision of the provinces by [[Diocletian]].
===Medieval era===
After the fall of the empire, the ''[[praefectus
The Ager Romanus, as a political zone subject to the municipium of Rome, theoretically continued to extend ''ad centesimum lapidem'', but in practice many of its regions ended up in [[Lombards|Lombard]] hands, with still others managed by the religious authorities or the pope, who were beginning to manage their territories by means of ''[[Patrimony of Saint Peter|patrimonia]]'' and ''[[Domusculta|domuscultae]]''.
===Today===
The ''motu proprio'' of 6 July 1817 by [[Pope Pius VII]] established the boundaries of the municipium of Rome, assigning to the capital its present communal territory as well as the present [[Comune|commune]]s of [[Fiumicino]], [[Pomezia]] and [[Ardea,
==References==
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== Bibliography ==
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* {{cite encyclopedia |last=Eder |first=Walter |url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/ager-romanus-e12218930 |title=Ager Romanus |encyclopedia=Brill's New Pauly |publisher=Brill |year=2006 |access-date=15 August 2023 }}
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