Roman peasant habitats and settlement in central Spain (1st c. B.C.–4th c. <scp>A.D.</scp>)

Abstract

The area under study comprises the Autonomous Community of Madrid, a highly urbanized modern region which coincides grosso modo with the N part of what used to be Carpetania . During the Early and Later Empire, it fell within the province of Hispania Citerior Tarraconensis , embracing the N part of the conventus Carthaginensis and the SW part of the conventus Caesaraugustanus . From the early days of municipalisation of the Hispanic provinces rural sites in this region belonged to the ager of three Latin municipia : Complutum , Titulcia , and Mantua Carpetanorum (fig. 1). While it is difficult to identify the precise limits of their agri , it seems probable that Complutum , as the most important urban centre in the region, would have had the largest territorium .