The birth of the city and the urbanization of the ager Gallicus (fourth-first century BCE), in F. Colivicchi

The archaeological discoveries of recent years have shed new light on the genesis and development of the urban phenomenon in central Adriatic Italy and, especially, in the Agro Gallico, part of Augustan regio VI, corresponding to today's northern Marche region. From the end of the fourth century BCE onwards, with the foundation of Sena Gallica (290-284 B.C.) - the first Roman colony on the Adriatic coast - and the deduction of the Latin colony of Ariminum (268 B.C.), the process of urbanization of this territory began and reached its maturity at the end of the first century BCE. Intimately linked to the Roman colonisation, read as a phenomenon of migration and interaction with the indigenous peoples and not as a simple instrument of power and conquest, the process of formation and urban definition of the cities of the ager Gallicus is the result of several interconnected political, legal-administrative, socio-economic and religious actions, which are discussed and analyzed by this contribution.