Syracuse (It. Provincia di Siracusa) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy. Its capital is the city of Syracuse. In Italy, the Province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (regione). ... Sicily (Sicilia in Italian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 sq. ... The Italian Republic or Italy (Italian: Repubblica Italiana or Italia) is a country in southern Europe. ... Map of central Mediterranean Sea, showing location of Syracuse on the island of Sicily. ...
It has an area of 2,109 sq km, and a total population of 396,167 (2001). There are 21 communes in the province (source: Italian institute of statistics Istat, see this link (http://www.upinet.it/indicatore.asp?id_statistiche=6)).
External link
Province website (http://www.provincia.siracusa.it/index2.htm)
When the province of a quaestor is mentioned it refers to the province of the consul or praetor to whom the quaestor is subordinate.
But the Roman governors were too apt to look on their provinces as their own peculiar prey; they had usually bought their way to office at vast expense, and they now sought in the provinces the means of reimbursing themselves for the expenditure they had incurred at Rome.
Another class of imperial provinces consisted of those which from the physical nature of the country (as the Alpine districts) or the backward state of civilization (as Mauretania and Thrace) or the stubborn character of the people (as Judaea and Egypt) were not adapted to receive a regular provincial constitution.
Syracuse (Italian Siracusa, Sicilian Sarausa, Greek, Latin Syracusa) is a city on the eastern coast of Sicily and the capital of the province of Syracuse, Italy.
Syracuse was founded in 734 or 733 BC by Greek settlers from Corinth, led by the oecist (colonizer) Archias, who called it Sirako, referring to a nearby swamp.
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