Quote Originally Posted by Julianus View Post
I'm not familiar with the situation in 272BC, but AFAK when Hannibal invaded Italy, Capua was still a highly autonomous city, more an ally than a province to Rome. They had their own senate and army, so they revolted to Hannibal with more inner trouble than intervention from Rome.
In fact, should Romani have a type I government anywhere but Roma itself?
A Type I government is an Italian Regional Government, which is clearly approporiate for Capua. It is true that Capua was highly autonomous, but that describes most cities of Roman Italy in this time period. Particularly in the 3rd C BC, Rome's interference in the internal affairs of most Italian cities was minimal. These cities had their own local governing bodies and magistrates, though they deferred to Rome in foreign affairs and matters of war and peace.

Unlike most Italian cities however, the people of Capua (and of most of Campania) were actually Roman citizens. After the Latin war, which concluded in 338 BC, the Campanian knights recieved full Roman citizenship (Livy 8.11), and the rest of the people received civitates sine suffragio, Roman citizenship without voting rights (Livy 8.14).