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Description
Every Roman settlement that ever existed, with borders from the year 117 AD.

There are three categories that the original source grouped settlements into:

Definite location of a town - a physical site for which we are positive what the name was (aka, we have connected the archaeological remains with a historic town we know about from the sources).
Probable location of a town - we have a site that we are fairly certain what the name was (but it is not definite).
Possible location of a town - a town from historic sources for which we are not sure of where it was located exactly (but we have a possible archaeological site in the area that is a possible match).
There are several reasons why concentrations of towns vary to such a degree, but the following are the most important. Firstly - some areas were just not as desirable as others. they provided less resources, were further away from major centers or were too dangerous for most people. Secondly, some areas were less centralized, and had fewer bigger towns but a lot more smaller centers (North Africa is an example of this, where there were numerous agricultural villages spread around the countryside). Thirdly, and probably the biggest factor here - the state of research. Sometimes we just know more about certain areas than the others.

The Bosporan kingdom, Iberia, and Albania were client states of Rome that were part of the Empire in everything but the name (rulers were put in place by Rome, they had Roman armies present and only limited autonomy).

Areas inhabited by Roxolani and Jazyges were not incorporated, but had Roman armies present and had only limited autonomy.

Other states shown on the map had full autonomy from the Roman Empire (in the year 117AD, at least).

Made from the data provided by DARMC Project of Harvard University.

This map has 11 655 towns in total, and there are bound to be some mistakes, so I'm sorry if I missed your local Roman town, I hope you will understand.

Description
Every Roman settlement that ever existed, with borders from the year 117 AD.

There are three categories that the original source grouped settlements into:

Definite location of a town - a physical site for which we are positive what the name was (aka, we have connected the archaeological remains with a historic town we know about from the sources).
Probable location of a town - we have a site that we are fairly certain what the name was (but it is not definite).
Possible location of a town - a town from historic sources for which we are not sure of where it was located exactly (but we have a possible archaeological site in the area that is a possible match).
There are several reasons why concentrations of towns vary to such a degree, but the following are the most important. Firstly - some areas were just not as desirable as others. they provided less resources, were further away from major centers or were too dangerous for most people. Secondly, some areas were less centralized, and had fewer bigger towns but a lot more smaller centers (North Africa is an example of this, where there were numerous agricultural villages spread around the countryside). Thirdly, and probably the biggest factor here - the state of research. Sometimes we just know more about certain areas than the others.

The Bosporan kingdom, Iberia, and Albania were client states of Rome that were part of the Empire in everything but the name (rulers were put in place by Rome, they had Roman armies present and only limited autonomy).

Areas inhabited by Roxolani and Jazyges were not incorporated, but had Roman armies present and had only limited autonomy.

Other states shown on the map had full autonomy from the Roman Empire (in the year 117AD, at least).

Made from the data provided by DARMC Project of Harvard University.

This map has 11 655 towns in total, and there are bound to be some mistakes, so I'm sorry if I missed your local Roman town, I hope you will understand.