A romanização da paisagem na Lusitânia

Abstract

The several centuries of Roman domain changed profoundly the Hispanic landscape, physical and human, through a continuum process, we may refer to as Romanization. The establishment of an urban web and a long distance communications network, both well adapted to the local reality and serving a new administrative structure, contributed, as much as the rural settlement patterns then introduced, to the development of the Lusitanian-Roman culture, the way of life mentioned by Aelius Aristides as the greatest benefit offered to the people of the Empire. Many of these fundamental changes endured beyond the time of Rome, marking the land and the people of what was once Lusitania.