II.   Sovereign

A Municipium is a city or town of a Roman province that was obligated to pay tribute to Rome and did not possess the same self - determination as a Civitas.

A citizen of a recognized Municipium was called a municeps being the lowest form of Roman citizen and as such as obligated to perform their duties called munera.

An important distinction with Municipium was the fact that municeps (lowest citizens) were considered citizens of the city / town they were born, regardless of their location since birth. Therefore, whenever a census was called for the purpose of collecting taxes (tribute), municeps were required to return to their birth town.