The Augustan division of Rome and Italy into regions
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The term regio, which in augural terminology denoted a section of sky whose dimensions were ascertained by arcane principles, also referred (synonymously with the term tribus) to one of the four urban regions into which the sixth of the Roman kings, Servius Tullius, was said to have divided the area of the city of Rome within the Pomerium. The four original urban regiones were 1. the regio Palatina, 2. the regio Collina, 3. the regi…