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Under Tiberius’ light-touch guidance, urbanization accelerated across the Roman Empire, with war becoming a marginal, border activity commanded by professional troops far from the main Romanized population centers.
Towns across the former wild borderlands of northern Hispania, like Braccara/Braga, Lucus Asturum/Lugo, Legio Asturica/Leon, often settled by Roman veterans of the Spanish conquest, slowly became cities spreading Roman values and culture, and remained monuments to Roman architecture for centuries and even millennia to come1.
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