# Lingua Romana

**Entity Type:** Skill

**German Name:** Lingua Romana

## Properties

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Category | Civic |
| Type | Discovery |
| Base Cost | 32,000 Knowledge |

## Description

Lingua Romana is a Civic category skill that increases the effect range of the Grammaticus building. Civic skills offer many upgrades for city administration, ranging from powerful attribute area effects to improvements for Medici, Vigiles, and Custodes. Civic skills make managing your cities significantly easier.

As a Discovery type skill, it makes up the majority of skills in the Anno 117 skill tree. To research it, you must first reach it through a research path. Some discoveries require additional conditions to unlock, such as hosting a specific population type in Albion.

## Effects

| Effect Type | Target | Value |
|-------------|--------|-------|
| Effect Range | Grammaticus | +20% |

This skill applies to all islands and increases the distance at which residences and other buildings benefit from a nearby Grammaticus.

## Unlock Requirements

- **Knowledge Required:** 32,000 Knowledge
- **Special Condition:** Choose the Roman path in Albion and host Mercators in your realm
- **Research Path:** Must be reached through the Civic skill tree

## Related Skills

Other Civic category skills include:
- Aleatoria
- Alliance Treaties
- Headhunting
- Asclepian Codices
- Market Forces
- Snuffing Sedition
- Well
- Cerere et Baccho
- The Art of Gift-Giving
- Empyrean Research
- Cult of Epona
- Epona's Hoofbeat
- Artificer Intelligence
- Conservation Ordinance
- Cognoscentic Research
- Fabulae Togatae
- Voluntary Vigilance
- Hospitality
- Hazard Fighters
- Seasoned to Taste
- Shrine Staffing
- Large Loans
- Metropolitan Research
- Warmer Hospitality
- Officialdom
- Hippocratic Corps
- Imperial Parades
- Recruitment Drive
- Concordance Research
- Cult of Minerva
- Cult of Cernunnos
- Cult of Mercury-Lugus
- Latrines
- Marble Roads
- Night Watch
- Villa Novation
- Public Funding
- Aesthetic Aedificator
- Pax Amicitia
- Fenixwrights
- Portitores
- Gubernatorial Research
- Praetorian Pumps
- Cohabitive Collaboration
- Quartermastery
- Quinquiremes
- Right to Repair
- Sanitary Measures
- Sacral Spaces
- Legally Enshrined
- Solutio Ad Hominem
- Funeral Games of Tailteann
- Municipal Research
- Day Watch
- Trireme
- Devotional Research
- Via Tributum
- Villa Visitation
- Populist Research
- Watchtowers

## Source

Data from [anno.land](https://anno.land/en/anno-117-skills/lingua-romana/)
