The fiscal organisation of the Malaga coastline in Roman times a hypothesis based on its port infrastructures and commercial evolution

The economic growth caused by the inclusion of the territory in the commercial networks of Rome was sustained by a complex system of enclaves oriented towards industrial production. The territorial differences resulted in a unique panorama that was configured from the dependence and leadership of the large urban centres, from which smaller nuclei developed whose articulation responded to the very organisation of maritime trade, forming areas of influence. The analysis of these sites and their port infrastructures allows us to suppose how not only maritime trade, but also the provincial fiscal system itself, was hierarchised and structured.