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A settlement reaches this size at a manpower of 9,000. It is level 3 of 5, above Large town and below Large city.

What it takes to reach it, and what holds it there

Manpower
Manpower needed to reach it 9,000
Floor 400
Overcrowding starts 22,000
Squalour doubles 17,000
Base manpower 9,000

These numbers are the same for every culture.

What it unlocks

Building levels first buildable here (76)

76 building levels need at least this size, so they are the buildings a settlement can first put up on reaching it. Counting everything from the bottom of the ladder up to here, 203 building levels are available at this size.

The 76 levels
Level Chain
Amber Merchants' Exchange (Urban) Amber Trader
Amphora Maker (Urban) Pottery Production
Arena (Leisure) Arena's
Armourer (Industry) Weaponsmiths
Aromas Market (Urban) Spices Trader
Artisan Jeweller (Industry) Jeweller Industry
Barracks and Armoury Military Industrial Complex
Breeding Farms (Husbandry) Open Field Pasturing (husbandry)
Breeding Stock Exchanges (Husbandry) Nomadic Pastoralism (husbandry)
Brewing Quarter (Urban) Grain Industry
Camels Supply (Rural) Camel Herd
Canal Network (Crops) Irrigated Farming (crops)
Copper Exports (Special exports) Copper Industry
Cordage Exports (Rural) Hemp Production
Date & Palm Wine Market (Rural) Dates Cultivation
Deep Mining Complex (Industry) Mines
Drainage Pumps (Crops) Marshland Reclamation Farming (crops)
Dye Works (Urban) Dye Industry
Execution Square Execution Square
Extensive Sulphur Mine (Industry) Sulphur Industry
Farms+2 Farms
Feasting Hall (Leisure) Taverns
Fine Horses Exports (Rural) Horse Trainer
Forum Traders
Grain Import Network (Food trade) Grain Imports
Great Treasury Capital Treasury
Healing Sanctuary (Healing) Healing
Huge Granary (Food trade) Granary
Incense Trader (Urban) Incense Trader
Inland Trade centre River Ports
Iron Exports (Special exports) Iron Industry
Ivory Trader (Rural) Ivory Trade
Large Glass Reworking Shop (Urban) Glass Industry
Large Temple Temples
Lead Exports (Special exports) Lead Industry
Leatherworker (Urban) Hides Industry
Library of Pergamum Academies
Local Mint (Civic) Local Mint
Magistrates' Court (Civic) Justice System
Managed Wetland Pastures (Adaptive husbandry) Wetland Pastoralism (adaptive husbandry)
Managed Woodland Pastures (Adaptive husbandry) Forest Pastoralism (adaptive husbandry)
Marble Exports (Industry) Marble Extraction
Metalwork Artisans (Industry) Metalworkers
Mouseion and the Great Library Academies
Odeon (Leisure) Theatre & Music
Olive Oil Mill (Rural) Olive Oil Production
Papyrus Press (Rural) Papyrus Exploitation
Paved Roads Roads
Perfume Maker (Urban) Medicinal Herbs & Perfumes
Permanent Military Garrisons Garrison
Pitch Exports (Industry) Pitch Industry
Plato's Academy Academies
Pro-Consul's Palace Government (governor)
Public Baths (Sanitation) Sanitation
Purple Dye Works (Industry) Purple Dye Industry
Rotational Grove Fields (Crops) Forest Clearance Farming (crops)
Runoff Water Collection (Crops) Rainfed Farming (crops)
Salt Exports (Industry) Salt Extraction
Salted Fish Market (Urban) Fish Salting Industry
Shipwright Ports
Silk Caravan (Urban) Silk Trade
Slave Auction (Urban) Slave Market
Small School (Civic) Academies
Stadion (Leisure) Racing & Athletics
State Mint (Civic) Centralized Mint
Stone Exports (Industry) Stone Quarry
Stone Wall Walls
Subterranean Aquaducts (Crops) Qanat Irrigated Farming (crops)
Temple of Herakles-Melqart at Gades Unique Buildings
Textile Factory (Urban) Textile Production
Timber Exports (Rural) Lumber Industry
Tin Exports (Special exports) Tin Industry
Transhumance (Husbandry) Highland Pastoralism (husbandry)
Wax Workshop (Rural) Beekeepers
Wild Animals Supply (Rural) Hunters
Winery (Rural) Wine Production

Units first raisable here (3)

3 units cannot be raised in a smaller settlement: the smallest building level that lists them needs this size. Counting everything from the bottom of the ladder up to here, 748 units are raisable at this size.

Unit Raised at
Ballistas Armourer (Industry)
Lithoboloi Armourer (Industry)
Quinquiremes Shipwright

At the campaign start

At the start of the campaign 89 of the 1,305 settlements are this size, 6.8% of them. 31 of those are a faction's capital.

Who holds them (38 factions)
Faction Culture Settlements
Ptolemaic Empire Eastern Hellenistic 16
Seleucid Empire Eastern Hellenistic 16
Free Peoples Libyan 9
Antigonid Kingdom Western Hellenistic 6
Carthage Phoenician 4
Bactria Eastern Hellenistic 3
Maurya Empire Indian 3
Indians Indian 2
Acragas Greek 1
Arados Phoenician 1
Argos Greek 1
Arverni Gallic 1
Asta Iberian 1
Bosporans Western Hellenistic 1
Buri Dacian 1
Capua Roman 1
Carmo Iberian 1
Cisalpine Boii Gallic 1
Cyrene Eastern Hellenistic 1
Cyzicus Greek 1
Gades Phoenician 1
Heraclea Pontica Greek 1
Insubres Gallic 1
Kush Ethiopian 1
Massalia Greek 1
Megalopolis Greek 1
Oretani Iberian 1
Osismii Gallic 1
Pergamon Western Hellenistic 1
Persis Iranian 1
Pontic Pentapolis Greek 1
Saba Arab 1
Senones Gallic 1
Sidon Phoenician 1
Sinope Greek 1
Taras Greek 1
Tyre Phoenician 1
Volcae (Gaul) Gallic 1
Every settlement that begins at this size (89)
Settlement Held by Manpower Buildings
Acragas ★ Acragas 5,200 15
Agedincum ★ Senones 5,100 12
Alexandreia-Arachosia Free Peoples 3,300 9
Alexandreia-Ariane Seleucid Empire 4,800 12
Alexandreia-Kaukasia Indians 3,200 12
Alexandreia-Troas Seleucid Empire 4,600 14
Amphipolis Antigonid Kingdom 6,000 14
Antiocheia-Mygdonia Seleucid Empire 3,500 12
Antiocheia-Persis Seleucid Empire 3,600 14
Apollonia-Epeiros Free Peoples 5,100 9
Arados-Marathos ★ Arados 3,600 12
Argos ★ Argos 4,400 14
Aristobathra Free Peoples 4,900 9
Arsinoe-Krokodeilon Polis Ptolemaic Empire 8,000 12
Arvernium ★ Arverni 6,100 13
Asta ★ Asta 6,000 15
Athribis Ptolemaic Empire 4,800 12
Baktra-Zariaspa ★ Bactria 4,400 15
Baktrias Basileion Bactria 2,900 11
Bononia ★ Cisalpine Boii 6,800 13
Boubastis Ptolemaic Empire 3,100 12
Buridava ★ Buri 5,600 12
Capua ★ Capua 9,000 15
Carmo ★ Carmo 6,400 13
Castulo ★ Oretani 5,600 12
Corinth Antigonid Kingdom 7,500 15
Cuphe Free Peoples 4,800 7
Damascus Seleucid Empire 4,400 12
Darapsa Bactria 2,400 13
Durocortorum Free Peoples 6,200 9
Ebusus Carthage 4,800 14
Ekbatana Seleucid Empire 5,500 15
Gades ★ Gades 7,800 13
Gaza Ptolemaic Empire 2,600 11
Hadrumetum Carthage 6,400 15
Halikarnassos Ptolemaic Empire 4,500 14
Hekatompylos Seleucid Empire 3,800 12
Herakleia-Pontos ★ Heraclea Pontica 6,200 12
Hermou Polis Ptolemaic Empire 6,400 14
Jerusalem Ptolemaic Empire 7,000 12
Kallatis ★ Pontic Pentapolis 4,200 12
Kassandreia Antigonid Kingdom 4,200 14
Kaunos Ptolemaic Empire 3,000 13
Kyzikos ★ Cyzicus 4,500 14
Lampsakos Seleucid Empire 3,600 14
Laodikeia-Paralos Seleucid Empire 6,000 13
Larissa Antigonid Kingdom 4,100 15
Lilybaion Carthage 6,000 14
Lysimacheia Seleucid Empire 4,300 15
Marib ★ Saba 5,800 13
Massalia ★ Massalia 6,200 13
Mediolanum ★ Insubres 6,400 13
Megalopolis ★ Megalopolis 4,400 13
Mendes-Thmouis Ptolemaic Empire 2,400 11
Mytilene Ptolemaic Empire 3,000 13
Nagara-Nysa Indians 2,100 13
Napata Kush 3,000 12
Narbo Free Peoples 6,100 10
Nemausus ★ Volcae (Gaul) 6,000 13
Osismium ★ Osismii 6,900 12
Oxyrhynchos Ptolemaic Empire 4,600 15
Pantikapaion ★ Bosporans 5,000 14
Paphos Ptolemaic Empire 3,900 13
Patala Free Peoples 6,700 10
Pella ★ Antigonid Kingdom 4,100 16
Pergamon ★ Pergamon 4,800 15
Persepolis ★ Persis 3,200 14
Pimprama Maurya Empire 8,000 12
Prophthasia Seleucid Empire 2,600 11
Ptolemais-Hermeiou Ptolemaic Empire 8,000 13
Ptolemais-Kyrenaike Cyrene 4,000 14
Salamis Ptolemaic Empire 3,600 16
Seleukeia-Pieria Seleucid Empire 6,600 15
Sidon ★ Sidon 6,400 12
Sinope ★ Sinope 6,800 12
Sirynx-Tambrax Seleucid Empire 4,100 14
Sittake Seleucid Empire 1,800 11
Smyrna Seleucid Empire 3,900 13
Soloi Ptolemaic Empire 2,800 13
Tarentum ★ Taras 6,400 15
Tarsos Seleucid Empire 5,000 15
Tegea Free Peoples 2,800 6
The Road to Methora Maurya Empire 9,500 13
The Road to Palibothra ★ Maurya Empire 11,000 13
Thebes-Megale Diospolis Ptolemaic Empire 8,200 16
Thessalonike Antigonid Kingdom 4,400 15
Tyre ★ Tyre 6,000 14
Utica Carthage 5,900 14
Venellium Free Peoples 6,100 7

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