Divisioni agrarie di età romana nelle Marche. Problemi e prospettive di ricerca

The studies conducted during the last decades on the agrarian divisions of Roman age, within the “ager Gallicus et Picenus” (Marche), finally allow us to trace a new synthesis. Landscape’s change in this middle-adriatic area made by the Roman surveyors was based to a careful reading of the physical geography. They had to keep in mind a predominantly hilly landscape with enough ample lowlands close to the main river mouth, often characterized by a strong instability. Despite it the region was strongly interested by the Roman farming. We identify some elements that link the whole area. Others aspects distinguish the Piceno by the Gallic land. We also notice, indeed, some fundamental historical phases in the Roman history of the region in which we identify the main centuriary assets, as the first on the 3rd century B.C. (beginnings of the Romanization); the 2nd c. B.C. and the Triumviral-Augustean Age (second half of the 1st c. B.C.).