centuriation

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “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.”