territoriumn.
/ˌtɛrᵻˈtɔːrɪəm/, U.S. /ˌtɛrəˈtɔriəm/ Roman History.
The area of land surrounding and within the boundaries of a Roman city, municipium, etc., and under its jurisdiction. Also more generally: the territory over which a state, church, etc., exercises jurisdiction.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > [noun] > with adjoining territory > adjoining territory
territorya1398
freedom1423
liberty?1435
terroira1460
territor1466
fielda1533
lowy1576
nomarchy1656
territorium1720
1720 R. Cotton in Coll. Curious Disc. 179 Our Elders thus dividing the world into parts, parted these into provinces, the provinces into regions, those regions into territoria, which word Siculus Flaccus useth only for those places the Romans had conquered.
1730 A. Bower Historia Litteraria (1731) 1 No. 1. i. 13 Charles the Great..inrich'd not only the Church of Rome, but other Churches likewise, with Baronies, Counties, &c...; he likewise gave them Territorium.
1827 F. A. Walter tr. B. G. Niebuhr Rom. Hist. II. xvii. 384 In like manner, an entire territorium, marked out for division by auspices, was, in fact, a temple, and unalterable.
1874 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. Great Brit. & Ireland 3 232 This isolated deposit..may be connected with the early limitation of the great ‘territorium’ or county of Middlesex.
1909 Geogr. Jrnl. 31 502 We can trace the limits of the territorium of Roman London.
1962 D. Harden Phoenicians v. 74 Carthage's fleet was burnt, her domain was henceforth to be confined to her territorium in eastern Tunisia.
2003 Corinth 20 279 The archaeological..evidence for the Roman planning of Corinth and its territorium can be divided into three chronological categories.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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