Talk:Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium

45,000 people? same issue as on History of Cologne
The Roman city had, according to Josiah Cox Russell (1958, "Ancient and Medieval Population"), 96.8 hectares. Russell estimates 150 people/hectare for Lugdunum, 200/hectare for Capua, and dividing his estimate of the population by his estimate of the urbanized area, 250/hectare for Roma. Admittedly, there was a lot of variation from apartment blocks to open space in this last city, but the estimate of 45,000 people [in the article, sine references] implies a density far in excess of even Roma.173.66.211.53 (talk) 02:22, 7 April 2013 (UTC)