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Population of Roman Empire cities

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Robert_Brenchley:
I'm not sure; it was a very small mint, only one officina. The info must be available somewhere, since the size of the town is known.

David Atherton:
I've seen figures on Londinium's population in the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries at 45,000. I'm assuming that around 100 A.D. the population might have been 20,000 or so (keeping in mind Pompeii was a minor Italian town and it had a pop. around 10,000-20,000).

Robert_Brenchley:
The mint wasn't established till the reign of Carausius, and probably only because the British Empire didn't have one; its a rather different case from most Roman mints.

Britannicus:

--- Quote from: Vespasian70 on May 18, 2004, 11:03:54 pm ---I guess I'm looking for "ballpark" stats. I've made my own list of major cities of the empire with around about population figures( that I've compiled from various sources) and was wondering if they were even close.
Rome-1,000,000
Alexandria-500,000
Antioch-400,000
Carthage-300,000
Pergamum-300,000
Ephesus-200,000
Athens-100,000
Jerusalem-100,000
Lepitus Magna-80,000
Lugdunum-80,000+
Miletus-100,000
Smyrna-80,000
Tarraco-70,000
Mediolanum-70,000
Ostia-50,000
The above stats probably lean towards the high end figures. Any comments or suggestions would be welcomed. :)  Remember these are rough guesses and not factual population numbers.
Are there any other major cities I've left out?

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I collect info like this as well! For the First Century AD I've got the following (from different sources, so hugely unreliable):
Rome 800,00-1,000,000 +
Alexandreia 300,000-600,000
Antiocheia ad Orontem 200,000 +
Ephesus 200,000-225,000
Smyrna 200,000
Pergamum 200,000
Miletus 100,000
Sardes 100,000
Also big: Seleuceia ad Tigrim, the Greek "twin city" to Parthian Ctesiphon; Aquileia, which some sources claim reached 500,000 a bit later on; and Trier and Nicomedia (very important places in the later Empire).
Going by their importance, I'd guess that places like Tarsus, Caesareia in Cappadocia, Marcianopolis, and so on, weren't small.

David Atherton:
Wow. Thanks for your list Britannicus.

Nice to see our figures are kinda similar.  :)

Since compiling that list in May i haven't seen anymore info on the subject....

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