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Urbs is Latin for a city or walled town; urbis means of the city, and the Urbs alone means Rome.
Urbs means a city or walled town. Used alone, the City meant Rome.
Wiktionary notes that classical civitas could mean a city with its whole territory, while urbs is the town itself. In registers both simply say the place was a city rather than a village (pagus) or a town (oppidum).
As seen in a recordLatin baptism register, Bohemia, 1810s
Natus in urbe Pragensi, filius Wenceslai Zbytovsky
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