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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]]. Politically and historically, it has represented the area of influence of Rome's municipal government. It is limited to the south by the [[Monti Prenestini]] range, [[Alban hills]] and [[Pontine Marshes]]; to the west by the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]]; to the north by the hills surrounding [[Lake Bracciano]] and to the [[east]] by the [[Monti Tiburtini]] range.<ref name="Alföldi1963">{{cite book|author=Andreas Alföldi|title=Early Rome and the Latins|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=lhOxAAAAIAAJ|year=1963|publisher=University of Michigan Press}}</ref>▼
▲The '''''Ager Romanus''''' (literally, "the field of Rome"') is the geographical rural area (part plains, part hilly) that surrounds the city of [[Rome]].
==History==
===Ancient Rome===
The Rome of [[Romulus]] and his immediate successors possessed a very restricted territory, as did neighbouring [[Latium|Latin]] cities such as [[Praeneste]]. Such territories were marked by boundary stones, or [[cippus|cippi]], used to define and limit the legitimate area of influence of cities, and the boundaries of private landholdings. According to tradition, Rome rapidly outgrew the ''ager'' established by its founder, and rather than accept its confinement, [[Tullus Hostilius]] razed the Latin city of [[Alba Longa]] ca. 635 BC, and incorporated its former territories within the ''ager Romanus''.
With the proclamation of the [[Roman Republic]] in
[[Augustus|Octavian Augustus]] founded the office of ''[[praefectus
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,
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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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