The Urbanisation of the North-Western Provinces of the Roman Empire investigates the development of urbanism in the north-western provinces of the Roman empire. Key themes include the continuities and discontinuities between pre-Roman and Roman ‘urban’ systems, the relationships between cities’ juridical statuses and their levels of monumentality, levels of connectivity and economic integration as illuminated by the geographical distribution of cities and town-like settlements belonging to various size brackets, and the shapes and nature of regional urban hierarchies, as reconstructed on the basis of not only the administrative centres but - crucially - all places that fulfilled urban ‘functions’. Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction . The study of the urbanisation of the North-Western provinces Chapter 1: Object and Aims Chapter 2: The Dawn of Urbanism Chapter 3: The Integration of the North-Western Provinces into the Roman Empire Chapter 4: The Self-Governing Cities: Elements and Rhythms of Urbanisation Chapter 5: The Secondary Agglomerations of Gaul Chapter 6: The Secondary Agglomerations of Germania Inferior and Britannia Conclusions Summary Appendix A: List of Civitates in the North-western Provinces and Their Juridical Status and Dating (either Date or Reign) Appendix B: Assured Magistrates of the North-Western Provinces Appendix C: The Settlements of the North-Western Provinces Bibliography Frida Pellegrino graduated with honours in 2008, after completing a BA course in Archaeology at the University of Padua. She then enrolled in the MA course at the University of Padua and spent a year abroad, studying at Southampton University (UK), with the Erasmus project. She graduated summa cum laude in 2011, specialising in Roman archaeology. She completed her PhD at the University of Leiden in 2018.