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[[File:The Growth of Roman Power in Italy.jpg|thumb|Roman territory {{Circa|100 BC}}]]
The '''''Ager Romanus''''' (literally, "the field of Rome"') is the geographical rural area (part plains, part hilly) that surrounds the city of [[Rome]].
==History==
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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 urbi]]'' and other offices which divided the administration of the city of Rome from that of the Roman Empire.
The same territorial division was confirmed by the re-subdivision of the provinces by [[Diocletian]].
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After the fall of the empire, the ''[[praefectus urbi]]'' continued to be elected and did not come to be totally deprived of their power even by the advancing [[Pope|papal]] power which effectively became the municipal government of Rome.
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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