G A astVortrag Alte Geschichte Archäologie Philologie ltertumsWissenschaften In search of Roman towns Urbanism in Germania Superior, Raetia and Noricum Karolien Pazmany MA Leiden University What elements defined a Roman town? Strabo described the Alpine region as a barren landscape of snowy mountains, ignorant of the fact that in time it would become a fully integrated part of the empire, characterized by typical Roman infrastructure and institutions. It was only at the end of the 1st century A.D. that the rivers Rhine and Danube came to delimit the Roman frontier, forming the northern borders of provinces, such as Germania Superior, Raetia and Noricum. The Roman Empire is often described as an empire of towns and cities, but which types of settlement in the northwestern Alpine region would have qualified as such? This paper attempts to gain an understanding of how these remote places were assimilated into the functioning of the imperial administration, as well as into the economic and social networks of the Roman world. Different kinds of epigraphical and archaeological evidence are used in an attempt to reconstruct the Roman urban network of the first three centuries A.D. Dienstag, 08.03.2016 um 18:30 Uhr, Residenzplatz 1, Abguss-Sammlung SR E.33 Klassische und Frühägäische Archäologie Ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wohlmayr Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dorothea Weber Dr. Felix Lang