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VIA FLAMINIA HISTORY
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Via Flaminia was built by Gaius Flaminius about
in 220 B.C. to connect Rome with Ager
Gallicus.
Via Flaminia represented a basic element for Roman expansion project
in this territory and it was a route of fundamental importance linking
Rome with northern Italy and later with central and eastern Europe.
Flaminia route followed ancient prehistoric paths ( sometimes
tratturi) and it was realized using rectilinear stretches linked
by bridges, viaducts, tunnels and substructures (sostruzioni) .
Via Flaminia started from Rome, followed the Tiber valley up to
the Apennines, crossing the mountains in Scheggia Pass and the Metauro
valley, passed by Fano (Fanum Fortunae) and Pesaro (Pisaurum),
coasting the Adriatic sea up to Rimini (Ariminum)
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Costruction date of via Flaminia
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The
construction of via Flaminia is attributed
to Gaius Flaminius, refering to the literary and historical sources,
for example Cassiodoro (Cron. a.u.c. 534).
However the exact construction date of via Flaminia is
still in dispute, for the different informations coming from sources,
that
waver between 220 or 223 B.C.
In fact, according to some ancient authors, via Flaminia was
built by Gaius Flaminius when he was consul in 223 BC (Paolo Festo
79, 16 L) and for others was built during his censorship in 220 BC.
(Livio, Perich., Epitome XX).
About
this question, there is a long discussion among modern authors,
because of legal and administrative reasons, first of all for the public
position of Gaius Flaminius, even if the more accepted is the ipothesis
of 220 B.C.
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Ager Gallicus
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Ager Gallicus was the territory taken away by
Rome to Galli Senoni at the beginning of III century B.C. after
the Sentinum battle (295 B.C.) and made part of roman property.
Nowadays
this territory corresponds to northen part of Esino river
in Marche Region. The Roman, in order to control the ager,
deducted, on the coast, the roman colonies& of Sena Gallica (Senigallia, founded about
in 284 B.C. as colonia civium Romanorum), Ariminum (Rimini), Pisaurum (Pesaro)
and Fanum Fortunae (Fano). In 232 B.C. Lex
Flaminia de agro Gallico et Piceno viritim dividundo (Gaius
Flaminius Act about Picenus and Gallicus territory division)
organized the administration of the countryside, creating a net of praefecturae that
since half the first century BC assumed the dignity of municipia,
as Aesis (Jesi), Suasa, Ostra, Forum Sempronii (Fossombrone). Ager
Gallicus, after the augustean administrative reorganization of Italic
peninsula, enters to make part of Regio VI, called Umbria
et Ager Gallicus. Via Flaminia represented in this point
of view an ulterior element of unification between the Umbrian and the Gallici in
a one Regio.
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Regio |
The regions
were not intermediate organs between the central government and cities
and have not political or administrative functions.
At the beginning of the roman empire Italy was a whole of territories with
various
statuses: the cities were municipia, which had independence and
political-administrative autonomy, and coloniae, cities of new foundation
that the Roman had created in order to control an unstable frontier territory.
Augustus grouped these cities with ethnic and geographic criteria also in order
to carry out the censuses for immense but enough homogenous areas .
Plinius Senior reported in Naturalis Historia (III 46), that Augustus
reorganized the Italian peninsula, subdividing it in the following regions:
Regio I Latium et Campania
Regio II Apulia et Calabria
Regio III Lucania et Brutii
Regio IV Samnium
Regio V Picenum
Regio VI Umbria et ager Gallicus
Regio VII Etruria
Regio VIII Aemilia
Regio IX Liguria
Regio X Venetia et Histria
Regio XI Transpadana |
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