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Large city

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A settlement reaches this size at a manpower of 17,000. It is level 4 of 5, above City and below Huge city.

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

	Manpower
Manpower needed to reach it	17,000
Floor	400
Overcrowding starts	30,000
Squalour doubles	28,000
Base manpower	14,000

These numbers are the same for every culture.

What it unlocks

Building levels first buildable here (45)

45 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, 243 building levels are available at this size.

The 45 levels

	Level	Chain
	Academy (Civic)	Academies
	Amber Exports (Urban)	Amber Trader
	Amphitheatre (Leisure)	Arena's
	Aqueduct (Sanitation)	Sanitation
	Awesome Temple	Temples
	Baking Guild (Urban)	Grain Industry
	Barracks and Foundry Complex	Military Industrial Complex
	Court of Law (Civic)	Justice System
	Crop Rotation (Crops)	Rainfed Farming (crops)
	Dockyard	Ports
	Dye Exports (Urban)	Dye Industry
	Fine Pottery Factory (Urban)	Pottery Production
	Foundry (Industry)	Weaponsmiths
	Garum Factory (Urban)	Fish Salting Industry
	Glassware Workshop (Urban)	Glass Industry
	Grain Export Port (Food trade)	Granary
	Great Droveways (Husbandry)	Open Field Pasturing (husbandry)
	Great Transhumance Roads (Husbandry)	Highland Pastoralism (husbandry)
	Highways	Roads
	Hippodrome (Leisure)	Racing & Athletics
	Honey and Wax Exports (Rural)	Beekeepers
	Huge Grain Import Network (Food trade)	Grain Imports
	Imperial Palace	Government (governor)
	Imperial Treasury	Capital Treasury
	Incense Caravan (Urban)	Incense Trader
	Irrigation Aqueducts (Crops)	Irrigated Farming (crops)
	Jewellers Quarter (Industry)	Jeweller Industry
	Large Forum	Traders
	Large Stone Wall	Walls
	Lowland Deforestation (Crops)	Forest Clearance Farming (crops)
	Luxury Clothiers Quarter(Urban)	Textile Production
	Medicine and Perfume Export (Urban)	Medicinal Herbs & Perfumes
	Metalworking District (Industry)	Metalworkers
	Olive Oil Exports (Rural)	Olive Oil Production
	Papyrus Supply (Rural)	Papyrus Exploitation
	Parchment Maker (Urban)	Hides Industry
	Purple Dye Factory (Industry)	Purple Dye Industry
	River Diversion Dyke (Crops)	Marshland Reclamation Farming (crops)
	Silk Market (Urban)	Silk Trade
	Slave Trading Hub (Urban)	Slave Market
	Spices Exports (Urban)	Spices Trader
	Sulphur Fumigant Exports (Industry)	Sulphur Industry
	The Cothon of Carthage	Ports
	Theatre (Leisure)	Theatre & Music
	Wine Exports (Rural)	Wine Production

Units first raisable here (1)

1 unit cannot be raised in a smaller settlement: the smallest building level that lists it needs this size. Counting everything from the bottom of the ladder up to here, 749 units are raisable at this size.

	Unit	Raised at
	Large Lithoboloi	Foundry (Industry)

At the campaign start

At the start of the campaign 15 of the 1,307 settlements are this size, 1.1% of them. 5 of those are a faction's capital.

Who holds them (9 factions)

Faction	Culture	Settlements
Seleucid Empire	Eastern Hellenistic	7
Athens	Greek	1
Bactria	Eastern Hellenistic	1
Cyrene	Eastern Hellenistic	1
Free Peoples	Libyan	1
Ptolemaic Empire	Eastern Hellenistic	1
Rhodes	Greek	1
Rome	Roman	1
Syracuse	Greek	1

Every settlement that begins at this size (15)

Settlement	Held by	Manpower	Buildings
Antiocheia-Margiane	Seleucid Empire	6,500	12
Apameia-Syria	Seleucid Empire	5,600	12
Athens ★	Athens	9,500	15
Babylon	Seleucid Empire	6,400	14
Ephesos	Seleucid Empire	10,000	15
Kyrene ★	Cyrene	7,400	15
Marakanda	Bactria	7,300	13
Memphis	Ptolemaic Empire	13,000	14
Rhodes ★	Rhodes	8,600	12
Rome ★	Rome	12,500	15
Sardis	Seleucid Empire	11,000	11
Susa	Seleucid Empire	8,500	14
Syracuse ★	Syracuse	11,000	17
Taxila	Free Peoples	8,300	12
Uruk	Seleucid Empire	5,500	13