Meaning of centuriation | Babel Free

Definitions

A method of land measurement used in Ancient Rome, characterised by the regular layout of a square grid traced using surveyors' instruments.

uncountable

Examples

“One particularly aggressive proponent of centuriation was Emperor Septimius Severus, who ruled from A.D. 192 to 211 and whose 400,000-man army was spread across an empire of 70 million people, from the Atlantic to the eastern shores of the Black Sea and from northern England to southern Egypt.”

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