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en-wikipedia-org-856		Roman citizenship - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3069	462	62	Citizenship in ancient Rome (Latin: civitas) was a privileged political and legal status afforded to free individuals with respect to laws, property, and governance. Client state citizens and allies (socii) of Rome could receive a limited form of Roman citizenship such as the Latin Right. The ius gentium was therefore a Roman legal codification of the widely accepted international law of the time, and was based on the highly developed commercial law of the Greek city-states and of other maritime powers.[3] The rights afforded by the ius gentium were considered to be held by all persons; it is thus a concept of human rights rather than rights attached to citizenship. The term Latini originally referred to the Latins, citizens of the Latin League who came under Roman control at the close of the Latin War, but eventually became a legal description rather than a national or ethnic one. Citizenship as a tool of Romanization[edit]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-856.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-856.txt