id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9462 Roman people - Wikipedia .html text/html 12101 943 63 In 212 AD, Emperor Caracalla extended citizenship rights to all the free inhabitants of the Roman Empire through his Antonine Constitution, with the exception of the dediticii, people who had become subject to Rome through surrender in war, and freed slaves.[8] It was only with the wars of the eastern Emperor Justinian I, aimed at restoring the western provinces to imperial control, that "Roman" began to fade as an identity in Western Europe, more or less disappearing in the 8th and 9th centuries and increasingly being applied by westerners only to the citizens of the city of Rome. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9462.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9462.txt