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In ancient Rome, the Latin word pagus (plural pagi) was an administrative term designating a rural subdivision of a tribal territory, which included individual farms, villages (vici), and strongholds (oppida) serving as refuges, as well as an early medieval geographical term. From the reign of Diocletian … See more
Pāgus is a native Latin word from a root pāg-, a lengthened grade of Indo-European *paǵ-, a verbal root, "fasten" (pango); it may be translated in the word as "boundary staked out on the ground". In semantics, *pag- used in pāgus is a See more
In classical Latin, pagus referred to a country district or to a community within a larger polity; Julius Caesar, for instance, refers to pagi within the greater polity of the Celtic Helvetii.
The pagus and vicus (a small nucleated settlement or … See moreThe concept of the pagus survived the collapse of the Empire of the West. In the Frankish kingdoms of the 8th–9th centuries, however, … See more
1. ^ Galsterer, Hartmut (2006). "Pagus". Brill's New Pauly. doi:10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e903730.
2. ^ Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony; Eidinow, Esther (2012). The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press. p. 1062. See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license - People also ask
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