Considerations about a Roman town of ancient Carpetania: Consabura (Consuegra, Toledo)

Abstract

The fundamental goal of this study is the global analysis of the Consabura´s Roman ciuitas, located in Consuegra (Toledo), contributing to a global vision about this Roman town, from diverse types of historical sources: epigraphic, archaeological, documentary, Greek-Latin literary ones, etc. From each other and of their revision in some cases, we will try to explain its historical past for this stage, so without any doubts, Consabura is the least studied of the three big towns that they were administrative centres of the Carpetania territories, next to Toletum and Complutum. The results obtained taught us an evolution of its urban development, its probable municipalization process in the Flavian period, and the creation of a vast and strategic territory between the Tagus valley and the Guadiana valley, whose control will be fundamental for its important historical development during this period.