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municipium
Municipium (pl. municipia) was the Latin term for a town or city. Etymologically the ''municipium'' was a social contract between ''municipes'', the "duty holders," or citizens of the town. The duties, or ''munera'', were a communal obligation assumed by the ''municipes'' in exchange for the privileges and protections of citizenship. Every citizen was a ''municeps''.〔Frank Frost Abbott, ''Municipal Administration in the Roman Empire (1926)'', Read Books, 2007, p.8〕
The distinction of ''municipia'' was not made in the Roman kingdom; instead, the immediate neighbors of the city were invited or compelled to transfer their populations to the urban structure of Rome, where they took up residence in neighborhoods and became Romans per se. Under the Roman Republic the practical considerations of incorporating communities into the city-state of Rome forced the Romans to devise the concept of ''municipium'', a distinct state under the jurisdiction of Rome. It was necessary to distinguish various types of ''municipia'' and other settlements, such as the colony. In the early Roman Empire these distinctions began to disappear; for example, when Pliny the Elder served in the Roman army, the distinctions were only nominal. In the final stage of development, all citizens of all cities and towns throughout the empire were equally citizens of Rome. The ''municipium'' then simply meant municipality, the lowest level of local government.
==Creation of a ''municipium''==
The ''munera'' and the citizenship and its rights and protections were specific to the community. No matter where a person lived, at home or abroad, or what his status or class, he was a citizen of the locality in which he was born. The distinguishing characteristic of the ''municipium'' was self-governance. Like any ancient city-state, the ''municipium'' was created by an official act of synoecism, or founding. This act removed the sovereignty and independence from the signatory local communities, replacing them with the jurisdiction of a common government. This government was then called the ''res publica'', "public affair" or in the Greek world the ''koinon'', "common affair."
The term ''municipium'' began to be used with reference to the city-states of Italy brought into the city-state of Rome but not incorporated into the city. The city of Romulus synoecized the nearby settlements of Latium, transferring their populations to the seven hills, where they resided in typically distinct neighborhoods. And yet, Sabines continued to live in the Sabine Hills and Alba Longa continued even though synoecized. The exact sequence of events is not known, whether the populace was given a choice or the synoecized sites were reoccupied. As it is unlikely that all the Sabines were invited to Rome, where facilities to feed and house them did not yet exist, it seems clear that population transfer was only offered to some. The rest continued on as independent localites under the ultimate governance of Rome. Under the Roman Republic the impracticality of transferring numerous large city-states to Rome was manifest. The answer to the problem was the ''municipium''. The town would be partially synoecized. The local government would remain but to its ''munera'' would be added ''munera'' due to the city of Rome. The partial synoecism took the form of a charter granting incorporation into the city of Rome and defining the rights and responsibilities of the citizens. The first ''municipium'' was Tusculum.
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