The rural Roman settlement in the Middle Ebro at the beginning of the High Empire

Abstract

Before the legal promotion of the urban enclaves of the Middle Ebro between the change of Era and the 1st century, the variety of situations among them ranged from those that had not yet been founded to those that were stipendiary, although Roman ways of life already they were seated in them. In the second half of the 1st century BC. C., have been able to verify the foundation of rural enclaves of new plant, although the great proliferation of these took place in the following century. It seeks to analyze the process of implantation of these rural settlements in the Middle Ebro (Navarra and La Rioja) putting it in relation to the legal promotion of cities, the implantation of the model of a mixed transport model based on the road network and the use of rivers as a means of navigation and in own territorial control.