Roman Hispania

Capara

Today: Oliva de Plasencia, Spain

Years
74–409

A Vettonian town on the edge of Lusitanian country, which Rome first left as a stipendiary city: it paid a levy and gave soldiers, but kept its own law, its coinage and its land. From the year 74, under Vespasian's Edict of Latinity, it was a municipium of Latin right, and from that moment its urban growth begins, and the four-sided arch that is its emblem. The Vía de la Plata crosses it north to south.

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