{"slug": "market-place", "label": "Market (place)", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_%28place%29", "wikidata": null, "qid": null, "description": null, "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [118, 841], "span_label": ["118 CE", "841 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "chang-an", "label": "Chang'an", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "huns", "label": "Huns", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "attila", "label": "Attila", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bosnia-and-herzegovina", "label": "Bosnia and Herzegovina", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "theodosius-ii", "label": "Theodosius II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sava", "label": "Sava", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "trade", "label": "Trade", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "danube", "label": "Danube", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "romania", "label": "Romania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "castra", "label": "Castra", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "netherlands", "label": "Netherlands", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 118, "year_label": "118 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Trajan's Forum (commissioned by the late Emperor Trajan) is completed with triumphal arches, columns, a market complex, and an enormous basilica, all of which replace hundreds of dwellings.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330326548#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 118", "revid": 1330326548, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 150, "year_label": "150 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Roman town Forum Hadriani (Voorburg) receives the title of Municipium Aelium Cananefatium, \"the town of the Cananefates\" (modern Netherlands). The town is awarded with rights to organize markets.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373077197#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 150", "revid": 1373077197, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 439, "year_label": "439 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Winter – Hun and Roman envoys meet at Margum (modern Bosnia and Herzegovina), an important market town on the Sava River. After negotiations, Attila and his brother Bleda, who are present, accept a four-point peace plan. Trading rights between the two states are confirmed and emperor Theodosius II pays an annual tribute of 700 pounds of gold.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1307025237#Byzantium", "title": "439", "revid": 1307025237, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantium"}}, {"year": 441, "year_label": "441 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Huns, led by Attila, attack Constanţa (modern Romania), one of the few remaining Roman forts on the northern bank of the Danube, and designated as a secure trading post. On a crowded market day, the Huns take the town by surprise and slaughter the garrison.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339010572#Byzantium", "title": "441", "revid": 1339010572, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantium"}}, {"year": 589, "year_label": "589 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Gregory, archdeacon of Rome, converts English slaves on the Roman market. He calls them Angels if they would be Christians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366654394#Religion", "title": "589", "revid": 1366654394, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 841, "year_label": "841 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "In the Chinese capital of Chang'an, the West Market (and East Market) are closed every night one hour and three quarters before dusk (by government order); the curfew is signaled by the sound of 300 beats to a loud gong. After the official markets have been closed for the night, small night markets in residential areas thrive with plenty of customers, despite government efforts to shut them down. With the decline of the government's authority (by mid 9th century), this edict (like many others) is largely ignored, as urban dwellers keep attending the night markets regardless.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360650312#Asia", "title": "841", "revid": 1360650312, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}]}