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In the provinces of the Roman West, the gods underwent a transformation and had to adapt in order to meet the changes enforced by the diffusion of the city system. With exceptions, though: in Italy or the provinces formerly conquered like Betica, where individuals had long been Roman, the cults, for all the variety that pertained to the history of each community, were all Roman. Elsewhere, from North Africa to the borderlands of the Rheno-Danubian axis, municipalisation was at the origin of the existing religious systems. Rome having defined and framed the cities’autonomy, it is easy to understand that the changes here mentioned and promoted by the cities themselves linked up with the religious expressions of the Roman power as inescapable elements of reference. Integration was as a matter of fact inseparable from Rome’s control over the provinces.