Questions tagged [cities]
For questions relating to settlements as centres of population, incl. their history and development.
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How was law enforcement handled in large US cities before professional police?
In the news lately in the USA there has been a lot of talk about defunding or abolishing police. Its been claimed by some that US police forces have their root in slave-catching, and are thus ...
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Why wasn't the Free City of Lübeck ever restored?
There is a long history of free imperial cities having extra privileges within the Holy Roman Empire. Many cities in contemporary Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy were former free imperial ...
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Typical fortifications around major cities in the 18th century
I came across this map of Vienna in 1769 (the city was then capital of the Hapsburg empire), i.e. almost a century after the major siege and battle of 1683 and almost a century before final removal of ...
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What jobs were available for migrants from the country to Rome?
I've read that the during the late Roman republic and early empire there was a great migration from country to urban living. Historians estimate in peninsular Italy 15%-20% of the population lived in ...