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Town < Large town < City < Large city < Huge city

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

	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.

73 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, 198 building levels are available at this size.

The 73 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
	Extensive Sulphur Mine (Industry)	Sulphur Industry
	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
	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

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 start of the campaign 89 of the 1,307 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	14
Agedincum ★	Senones	5,100	11
Alexandreia-Arachosia	Free Peoples	3,300	9
Alexandreia-Ariane	Seleucid Empire	4,800	10
Alexandreia-Kaukasia	Indians	3,200	11
Alexandreia-Troas	Seleucid Empire	4,600	12
Amphipolis	Antigonid Kingdom	6,000	12
Antiocheia-Mygdonia	Seleucid Empire	3,500	10
Antiocheia-Persis	Seleucid Empire	3,600	12
Apollonia-Epeiros	Free Peoples	5,100	9
Arados-Marathos ★	Arados	3,600	11
Argos ★	Argos	4,400	13
Aristobathra	Free Peoples	4,900	9
Arsinoe-Krokodeilon Polis	Ptolemaic Empire	8,000	11
Arvernium ★	Arverni	6,100	12
Asta ★	Asta	6,000	14
Athribis	Ptolemaic Empire	4,800	11
Baktra-Zariaspa ★	Bactria	4,400	13
Baktrias Basileion	Bactria	2,900	10
Bononia ★	Cisalpine Boii	6,800	12
Boubastis	Ptolemaic Empire	3,100	11
Buridava ★	Buri	5,600	11
Capua ★	Capua	9,000	14
Carmo ★	Carmo	6,400	12
Castulo ★	Oretani	5,600	11
Corinth	Antigonid Kingdom	7,500	13
Cuphe	Free Peoples	4,800	7
Damascus	Seleucid Empire	4,400	11
Darapsa	Bactria	2,400	12
Durocortorum	Free Peoples	6,200	9
Ebusus	Carthage	4,800	13
Ekbatana	Seleucid Empire	5,500	13
Gades ★	Gades	7,800	12
Gaza	Ptolemaic Empire	2,600	10
Hadrumetum	Carthage	6,400	13
Halikarnassos	Ptolemaic Empire	4,500	13
Hekatompylos	Seleucid Empire	3,800	10
Herakleia-Pontos ★	Heraclea Pontica	6,200	11
Hermou Polis	Ptolemaic Empire	6,400	12
Jerusalem	Ptolemaic Empire	7,000	11
Kallatis ★	Pontic Pentapolis	4,200	11
Kassandreia	Antigonid Kingdom	4,200	13
Kaunos	Ptolemaic Empire	3,000	12
Kyzikos ★	Cyzicus	4,500	13
Lampsakos	Seleucid Empire	3,600	13
Laodikeia-Paralos	Seleucid Empire	6,000	12
Larissa	Antigonid Kingdom	4,100	14
Lilybaion	Carthage	6,000	12
Lysimacheia	Seleucid Empire	4,300	13
Marib ★	Saba	5,800	12
Massalia ★	Massalia	6,200	12
Mediolanum ★	Insubres	6,400	12
Megalopolis ★	Megalopolis	4,400	12
Mendes-Thmouis	Ptolemaic Empire	2,400	10
Mytilene	Ptolemaic Empire	3,000	12
Nagara-Nysa	Indians	2,100	12
Napata	Kush	3,000	10
Narbo	Free Peoples	6,100	10
Nemausus ★	Volcae (Gaul)	6,000	12
Osismium ★	Osismii	6,900	11
Oxyrhynchos	Ptolemaic Empire	4,600	13
Pantikapaion ★	Bosporans	5,000	13
Paphos	Ptolemaic Empire	3,900	12
Patala	Free Peoples	6,700	10
Pella ★	Antigonid Kingdom	4,100	15
Pergamon ★	Pergamon	4,800	14
Persepolis ★	Persis	3,200	13
Pimprama	Maurya Empire	8,000	10
Prophthasia	Seleucid Empire	2,600	9
Ptolemais-Hermeiou	Ptolemaic Empire	8,000	12
Ptolemais-Kyrenaike	Cyrene	4,000	13
Salamis	Ptolemaic Empire	3,600	14
Seleukeia-Pieria	Seleucid Empire	6,600	14
Sidon ★	Sidon	6,400	11
Sinope ★	Sinope	6,800	11
Sirynx-Tambrax	Seleucid Empire	4,100	12
Sittake	Seleucid Empire	1,800	9
Smyrna	Seleucid Empire	3,900	12
Soloi	Ptolemaic Empire	2,800	12
Tarentum ★	Taras	6,400	14
Tarsos	Seleucid Empire	5,000	13
Tegea	Free Peoples	2,800	6
The Road to Methora	Maurya Empire	9,500	12
The Road to Palibothra ★	Maurya Empire	11,000	12
Thebes-Megale Diospolis	Ptolemaic Empire	8,200	14
Thessalonike	Antigonid Kingdom	4,400	14
Tyre ★	Tyre	6,000	13
Utica	Carthage	5,900	13
Venellium	Free Peoples	6,100	7