| Controlled by the Romans from about 50 bc, the civitas was a part of the province of Aquitania. |
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| One answer resides in the belief, still ingrained in our civitas, that Americans have a shared sense of purpose and destiny. |
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| The Roman civitas was the administrative centre of the Brigantes tribe, the largest and most northerly tribe in Roman Britain. |
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| The Iceni are recorded as a civitas of Roman Britain in Ptolemy's Geographia, which names Venta Icenorum as a town of theirs. |
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| Several of these kingdoms may have had as their initial focus a territory based on a former Roman civitas. |
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| Based on inscriptional evidence from the area, the Roman civitas of the Carvetii seems to have covered portions of Cumbria. |
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| This was abandoned about 75 AD and the place was elevated into the civitas of the Dumnonii. |
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| The civitas is not just the collective body of all the citizens, it is the contract binding them all together, because each of them is a civis. |
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| Under that last meaning some places took on the name, civitas, or incorporated it into their name, with the later civita or civida as reflexes. |
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| At Cirencester, for example, the Romans made use of the army base that originally oversaw the nearby tribal oppidum to create a civitas. |
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| Land destined to become a civitas was officially divided up, some being granted to the locals and some being owned by the civil government. |
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| They probably emerged from the Gallic Wars with the status of a free civitas exempt from tribute. |
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| This is often disputed as the Carvetii made up a separate civitas under Roman rule. |
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| All this activity was administered by an ordo or curia, a civitas council consisting of men of sufficient social rank to be able to stand for public office. |
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| It is best known for its impressive excavated remains of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum, which was the fourth largest civitas capital in Roman Britain. |
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| This walled civitas, possibly the only one in northwest Britain, presumably served as the tribal centre of the Carvetii on the model of other such sites in Roman Britain. |
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| Powys roughly coincided with the territory of the Celtic Cornovii tribe whose civitas or administrative centre during the Roman period was at Viroconium. |
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| The royal burghs of Edinburgh and Perth anciently used the title civitas, but the term city does not seem to have been used before the 15th century. |
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| This civitas, a common Roman administrative term designating both a city and the tribal district around it, was later adjoined to the city of Carnuntum. |
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| Cork City Council has converted 17 of their vehicles to run on rapeseed oil, under the EU CIVITAS programme. |
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| Civitas was a popular and widely used word in ancient Rome, with reflexes in modern times. |
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| In 1953 the composer said that of his choral works Sancta Civitas was his favourite. |
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| The first known names were Noviomagus and Civitas Nemetum, after the Teutonic tribe, Nemetes, settled in the area. |
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| The name Spira is first recorded in the 7th century, taken from villa Spira, a Frankish settlement situated outside of Civitas Nemetum. |
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| The attribution of Bayonne as Civitas Boatium, a place mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary and by Paul Raymond in his 1863 dictionary, has been abandoned. |
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