Map of the Roman Empire, with the provinces, after 120 AD.

In Ancient Rome, a province (Latin, provincia, pl. provinciae) was the largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's foreign possessions (those beyond the Italian peninsula). The word province in modern English has its origins in the term used by the Romans. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Ancient Rome was a civilization that existed in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East between 753 BC and its downfall in AD 476. ... The Italian peninsula or the Apennine peninsula is one of the greatest peninsulas of Europe, spanning 1000 km from the Alps in the north, to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south. ... This article is about political regions. ...

Provinces were generally governed by politicians of senatorial rank, usually former consuls or former praetors. (A later exception was the province of Egypt, incorporated by Augustus after the death of Cleopatra - it was ruled by a governor of equestrian rank only, perhaps as a discouragement to senatorial ambition). The Roman Senate (Latin, Senatus) was a deliberative body which was important in the government of both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. ... For modern diplomatic consuls, see Consulate general. ... // Definition According to Cicero, Praetor was a title which designated the consuls as the leaders of the armies of the state. ...

Under the Roman Republic, the governor of a province was appointed for a period of one year. At the beginning of the year, the provinces were distributed to future governors by lots or direct appointment. Normally, the provinces where more trouble was expected - either from barbaric invasions or internal rebellions - were given to former consuls, men of the greatest prestige and experience. The distribution of the legions across the provinces was also dependent of the amount of danger that they represented. In 14 AD, for instance, the province of Lusitania had no permanent legion but Germania Inferior, where the Rhine frontier was still not pacified, had a garrison of four legions. These problematic provinces were the most desired by future governors. Problems meant war, and war always brought plunder, slaves to sell and opportunities for enrichment. Sicilia (the island of Sicily) constituted the first Roman province from 241 BC, having been progressively conquered by the Republic during the First Punic War (264 - 241 BC). The Roman Governor was an official elected or appointed to be the chief adminstator of Roman Law through-out one (sometimes many) of Romes many provines. ... For modern diplomatic consuls, see Consulate general. ... The Roman legion (from the Latin legio, meaning levy) was the basic military unit of ancient Rome. ... For other uses, see number 14. ... Roman province of Lusitania, 120 AD Lusitania, an ancient Roman province approximately including current Portugal and part of western current Spain (specifically the present autonomous community Estremadura), named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people. ... The Roman province of Germania Inferior, 120 AD Germania Inferior (in English: Lower Germany) was a Roman province located on the left bank of the Rhine, in todays southern Netherlands and western Germany. ... 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. ... 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. ... Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC - 240s BC - 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC 190s BC 246 BC 245 BC 244 BC 243 BC 242 BC - 241 BC - 240 BC 239 BC 238... See also Roman Republic (18th century) and Roman Republic (19th century) The Roman Republic (Latin: Res Publica Romanorum) was the republican government of the city of Rome and its territories from 510 BC until the establishment of the Roman Empire, which sometimes placed at 44 BC the year of Caesar... The First Punic War was fought between Carthage and the Roman Republic from 264 BC to 241 BC. It was the first of three major wars between the two powers for supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea. ...

The number and size of provinces changed according with internal Roman politics. During the Empire, the biggest or more garrisoned provinces (example Pannonia and Moesia) were subdivided into smaller provinces in order to prevent the situation whereby a sole governor held too much power in his hands, thus discouraging ambition for the Imperial throne itself. The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as Caesar Augustus). ... Position of the Roman province of Pannonia Pannonia is an ancient country bounded north and east by the Danube, conterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia. ... In ancient geography, Moesia was a district inhabited by a Thracian people. ...

With the formation of the Principate after the civil wars which ended the Roman Republican period, Augustus retained the power to choose governors for the provinces in which he and his successors held supreme military and administrative control. Thus the more strategically critical provinces, generally located along the contested borders of the Empire, became Imperial provinces. The remaining provinces were maintained as Senatorial provinces, in which the Senate had the right to appoint a governor. The Principate is, according to its etymological derivation from the Latin word princeps, meaning chief or first, the political regime dominated by such a head of state and government. ... Augustus Caesar Caesar Augustus (Latin: IMP·CAESAR·DIVI·F·AVGVSTVS)¹ (23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), known earlier in his life as Gaius Octavius or Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, was the first Roman Emperor and is traditionally considered the greatest. ... An imperial province was a Roman province where the Emperor had the sole right to appoint governors. ... A senatorial province was a Roman province where the Senate had the right to appoint governors. ...

List of Republican provinces

• 241 BC Sicilia, propretorial province
• 231 BC Corsica et Sardinia, propretorial province
• 197 BC Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior, propretorial provinces
• 167 BC Illyricum, propretorial province
• 146 BC Macedonia-Achaea, propretorial province
• 146 BC Africa proconsularis, proconsular province
• 129 BC Asia (province), proconsular province
• 120 BC Gallia Transalpina (later Gallia Narbonensis), propretorial province
• 81 BC Gallia Cisalpina, propretorial province
• 74 BC Bithynia, propretorial province
• 74 BC Cyrenaica et Creta, propretorial province
• 64 BC Cilicia et Cyprus, propretorial province
• 64 BC Syria, propretorial province
• 30 BC Aegyptus , propretorial province, getting a special governor styled Praefectus augustalis
• 29 BC Moesia, propretorial province

Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC - 240s BC - 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC 190s BC 246 BC 245 BC 244 BC 243 BC 242 BC - 241 BC - 240 BC 239 BC 238... Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC - 230s BC - 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC Years: 236 BC 235 BC 234 BC 233 BC 232 BC - 231 BC - 230 BC 229 BC... Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC - 190s BC - 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC Years: 202 BC 201 BC 200 BC 199 BC 198 BC - 197 BC - 196 BC 195 BC... Roman Imperial province of Hispania Tarraconensis, 120 AD Hispania Tarraconensis was a Roman province in what is known today as modern Spain. ... Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 210s BC 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC - 160s BC - 150s BC140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC Years: 172 BC 171 BC 170 BC 169 BC 168 BC - 167 BC - 166 BC 165 BC 164... This article is about an ancient civilization in southeastern Europe; see also Illyria (software), Illyria (character in the TV series Angel). ... Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC - 140s BC - 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC Years: 151 BC 150 BC 149 BC 148 BC 147 BC - 146 BC - 145 BC 144 BC... Achaea (uh-kee-uh) was a province of the Roman Empire, consisting of the modern-day Greece and bordered on the north by the provinces of Epirus and Macedonia. ... Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC - 120s BC - 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC Years: 134 BC 133 BC 132 BC 131 BC 130 BC - 129 BC - 128 BC 127 BC... The Roman province of Asia was the administrative unit added to the late Republic, a Senatorial province governed by a proconsul who was an ex-consul, an honor granted only to Asia and the other rich province of Africa. ... Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC - 120s BC - 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC Years: 125 BC 124 BC 123 BC 122 BC 121 BC - 120 BC - 119 BC 118 BC... Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis, 120 AD Gallia Narbonensis was a Roman province located in what is now Provence in southern France. ... Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis, 120 AD Gallia Narbonensis was a Roman province located in what is now Languedoc and Provence, in southern France. ... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC - 80s BC - 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC Years: 86 BC 85 BC 84 BC 83 BC 82 BC - 81 BC - 80 BC 79 BC 78... Province of the Roman Republic, in modern-day northern Italy. ... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC - 70s BC - 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC Years: 79 BC 78 BC 77 BC 76 BC 75 BC - 74 BC - 73 BC 72 BC 71... Bithynia was an ancient province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Black Sea (Euxine). ... Roman province of Cyrenaica, 120 AD Cyrenaica was a Roman province on the northern coast of Africa between Egypt and Numidia; it had been formerly Greek. ... Greece and Crete Crete, sometimes spelled Krete (Greek Κρήτη / Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. ... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC - 60s BC - 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC Years: 69 BC 68 BC 67 BC 66 BC 65 BC 64 BC 63 BC 62 BC 61... In ancient geography, Cilicia (Ki-LIK-ya) formed a district on the southeastern coast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey), north of Cyprus. ... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC - 30s BC - 20s BC 10s BC 0s 10s 20s Years: 35 BC 34 BC 33 BC 32 BC 31 BC 30 BC 29 BC 28 BC 27 BC 26 BC... Categories: Ancient Roman provinces | Egyptian history | Africa geography stubs ... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC - 20s BC - 10s BC 0s 10s 20s 30s Years: 34 BC 33 BC 32 BC 31 BC 30 BC 29 BC 28 BC 27 BC 26 BC 25 BC 24... In ancient geography, Moesia was a district inhabited by a Thracian people. ...

List of Roman provinces in 120 AD

1. Hispania Baetica
2. Lusitania
3. Hispania Tarraconensis
4. Gallia Narbonensis (the Roman province; the term persists in the medieval and modern name Provence)
5. Gallia Aquitania
6. Gallia Lugdunensis
7. Gallia Belgica
8. Britannia
9. Germania Inferior
10. Germania Superior
11. Raetia
12. Italia
13. Sicilia
14. Corsica et Sardinia
15. Alpes Poeninae
16. Alpes Cottiae
17. Alpes Maritimae
18. Noricum
19. Pannonia
20. Dalmatia
21. Dacia
22. Moesia
23. Thracia
24. Macedonia
25. Epirus
26. Achaea
27. Asia
28. Bithynia
29. Galatia
30. Lycaonia
31. Lycia
32. Pisidia
33. Pamphylia
34. Cilicia et Cyprus
35. Cappadocia
36. Pontus
37. Armenia Inferior
38. Sophene
39. Osroene
40. Commagene
41. Syria
42. Iudaea
43. Arabia Petraea
44. Aegyptus
45. Cyrenaica (including Creta)
46. Numidia
47. Africa
48. Mauretania
49. Baleares (province)

Roman province of Hispania Baetica, 120 CE In Hispania, which in Greek is called Iberia, there were three Imperial Roman provinces, Hispania Baetica in the south, Lusitania, corresponding to modern Portugal, in the west, and Hispania Tarraconensis in the north and northeast. ... Roman province of Lusitania, 120 AD Lusitania, an ancient Roman province approximately including current Portugal and part of western current Spain (specifically the present autonomous community Estremadura), named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people. ... Roman Imperial province of Hispania Tarraconensis, 120 AD Hispania Tarraconensis was a Roman province in what is known today as modern Spain. ... Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis, 120 AD Gallia Narbonensis was a Roman province located in what is now Languedoc and Provence, in southern France. ... Provence is a former Roman province and is now a region of southeastern France, located on the Mediterranean Sea adjacent to Frances border with Italy. ... Gallia Aquitania, in ancient geography, was a province of the Roman Empire, located in present-day southwest France and bordered by the provinces of Gallia Lugdunensis, Gallia Narbonensis, and Hispania Tarraconensis. ... Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis, 120 AD Gallia Lugdunensis was a province of the Roman Empire roughly encompassing the regions of Brittany, Normandy and the area around Lutetia Parisiorum (Paris) in what is now the modern country of France. ... Gallia Belgica was a Roman province located in what is now the southern part of the Netherlands, Belgium and northeastern France. ... Principal sites in Roman Britain Roman Britain is the term applied to that part of Britain lying within the Roman Empire (which never extended to the whole island). ... The Roman province of Germania Inferior, 120 AD Germania Inferior (in English: Lower Germany) was a Roman province located on the left bank of the Rhine, in todays southern Netherlands and western Germany. ... Categories: Historical stubs | Ancient Roman provinces | German history | Germany | History of the Germanic peoples ... The Roman Empire ca. ... Roman province of Alpes Maritimae, 120 AD Alpes Maritimae was a province of the Roman Empire, one of three small provinces straddling the Alps between modern France and Italy. ... The Roman Empire ca. ... Position of the Roman province of Pannonia Pannonia is an ancient country bounded north and east by the Danube, conterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia. ... Dalmatia (Croatian Dalmacija, Italian Dalmazia, Serbian Далмација) is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, mostly in modern Croatia, spreading between the island of Pag in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. ... Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, a subtribe of the Getae, was a large district of Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa (Tisza river, in Hungary), on the east by the Tyras... In ancient geography, Moesia was a district inhabited by a Thracian people. ... Thrace is a historical and geographic area in south-east Europe spread over southern Bulgaria, north-eastern Greece, and European Turkey. ... Epirus (Greek Ήπειρος, Ípeiros), is a province or periphery in northwestern Greece, bounded by West Macedonia and Thessaly to the east, by the Ambracian Gulf and the province of West Greece to the south, the Ionian Sea and the Ionian Islands to the west and Albania to the north. ... Achaea (uh-kee-uh) was a province of the Roman Empire, consisting of the modern-day Greece and bordered on the north by the provinces of Epirus and Macedonia. ... The Roman province of Asia was the administrative unit added to the late Republic, a Senatorial province governed by a proconsul who was an ex-consul, an honor granted only to Asia and the other rich province of Africa. ... Bithynia was an ancient province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Black Sea (Euxine). ... Ancient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia (now Turkey). ... In ancient geography, Lycaonia was a large region in the interior of Asia Minor, north of Mount Taurus. ... Lycia is a region on the southern coast of Turkey. ... Pisidia was an inland region in southern Anatolia. ... Pamphylia, in ancient geography, was the region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean to Mount Taurus. ... In ancient geography, Cilicia (Ki-LIK-ya) formed a district on the southeastern coast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey), north of Cyprus. ... Cappadocia in 188 BC In ancient geography, Cappadocia (Greek: Καππαδοκία) was an extensive inland district of Asia Minor (modern Turkey). ... Pontus was a name applied in ancient times to extensive tracts of country in the northeast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey) bordering on the Euxine (Black Sea), which was often called simply Pontos (the Main), by the Greeks. ... Kommagene (Latin Commagene) was a small kingdom, located in modern south-central Turkey, with its capital at Samosata (modern Samsat). ... Iudaea was the name of a Roman province, which extended over Judaea (Palestine). ... The term the Middle East sometimes applies to the peninsula alone, but usually refers to the Arabian Peninsula plus the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Iran. ... Categories: Ancient Roman provinces | Egyptian history | Africa geography stubs ... Roman province of Cyrenaica, 120 AD Cyrenaica was a Roman province on the northern coast of Africa between Egypt and Numidia; it had been formerly Greek. ... Numidia was an ancient African Berber kingdom and later a Roman province on the northern coast of Africa between the province of Africa (where Tunisia is now) and the province of Mauretania (which is now the western part of Algerias coastal area). ... Categories: Historical stubs | Ancient Roman provinces ... Mauretania was a Berber kingdom on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa (named after the Mauri tribe, after whom the Moors were named), corresponding to western Algeria and northern Morocco. ...

List of Roman Provinces from c. 300 to 476 AD

The emperor Diocletian introduced a radical reform known as the Tetrarchy (284-305), with a western and eastern Augustus or senior emperor, each seconded by a junior emperor (and designated successor) or Caesar, and each of these four defending and administering a quarter of the empire. The scheme was not to last in detail, but the four parts were restored in 318 by the emperor Constantine the Great in the form of what he termed 'praetorian prefectures' (whose holders generally rotated frequently, as in the usual magistracies). Constantine also created a second capital, known as New Rome or Constantinople, and each of these two cities had its own governor or Praefectus Urbi. In general, between the acclamation of Diocletian and the formal end of the western Empire in 476, the Empire was recognised as being divided into two, with separate Emperors for the Eastern and Western halves. Emperor Diocletian Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus (245-313 AD), born Diocles, was Roman Emperor from November 20, 284 to May 1, 305. ... The Tetrarchs, a porphyry sculpture sacked from a Byzantine palace in 1204, Treasury of St. ... Roman Empire c. ...

Diocletian set up 12 dioceses (each under a Vicarius). Three more were created by splits in the fourth century (in the Western empire Italia was split in two and in the east Egypt was detached from Oriens). Pope Pius XI blesses Bishop Stephen Alencastre as fifth Apostolic Vicar of the Hawaiian Islands in a Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace window. ... Under the Roman Empire, a vicarius was the deputy prefect of a diocese or group of provinces. ...

Detailed information on these arrangements is contained in the Notitia Dignitatum (Record of Offices), a document dating from the early 5th century. It is from this authentic imperial source (except for an occasional spelling mistake or omission in the process of copying) that we draw most data, as the names of the areas governed and titles of the governors are given there. There are however debates about the source of the data recorded in the Notitia, and it seems clear that some of its own sources are earlier than others. Notitia dignitatum is the Latin title, literally meaning Note on the dignities (i. ...

It is interesting to compare this with the list of military territories in the article Dux (listing both Duces, in charge of border garrisons, and the higher ranking Comites rei militaris, with more mobile forces). Dux is the Latin for leader (from the verb ducere, to pull). It is also the root (via the french duc) of the English word duke and its derivates, the Italian doge et cetera. ...

Praetorian prefecture of the Gauls

Diocese of Britain

• Maxima Caesariensis
• Valentia
• Britannia Prima
• Britannia Secunda
• Flavia Caesariensis

Maxima Caesariensis was the name of one of the four provinces of Roman Britain, as named in the Verona List, dated AD 312 - 314. ... Valentia was the name of a consular northern province of Roman Britain. ... Britannia Prima was one of the provinces of Roman Britain created c. ... Britannia Secunda was one of the provinces of Roman Britain created c. ... Flavia Caesariensis was one of the provinces of Roman Britain. ...

Diocese of Gaul

This diocese covered about half of the Gallic provinces of the early empire, viz what is now northern France, Belgium, Luxembourg, those parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the left bank of the Rhine, and parts of Switzerland:

• Alpes Penninae et Graiae
• Belgica I
• Belgica II
• Germania I
• Germania II
• Lugdunensis I
• Lugdenensis II
• Lugdunensis III
• Lugdunensis IV
• Maxima Sequanorum

Gallia Belgica was a Roman province located in what is now the southern part of the Netherlands, Belgium and northeastern France. ... Germania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Diocese of Viennensis

Named after the city of Vienna city (now Vienne), and entirely in present-day France Vienne is a département of France, located in the center of the country, and named after the Vienne River. ...

• Viennensis
• Alpes Maritimae
• Aquitanica I
• Aquitanica II
• Novempopulana
• Narbonnensis I
• Narbonnensis II

In the fifth century Viennensis was replaced by a diocese of Septem Provinciae with similar boundaries. Roman province of Alpes Maritimae, 120 AD Alpes Maritimae was a province of the Roman Empire, one of three small provinces straddling the Alps between modern France and Italy. ...

Diocese of Spain

• Baetica
• Baleares
• Carthaginiensis
• Tarraconensis
• Gallaecia
• Lusitania
• Mauretania Tingitana or Hispania Nova

Roman province of Hispania Baetica, 120 AD In Hispania, which in Greek is called Iberia, there were three Imperial Roman provinces, Hispania Baetica in the south, Lusitania, corresponding to modern Portugal, in the west, and Hispania Tarraconensis in the north and northeast. ... Capital Palma de Mallorca Official languages Catalan and Castilian Area  - total  - % of Spain Ranked 17th 4 992 km² 1,0% Population  - Total (2003)  - % of Spain  - Density Ranked 14th 916 968 2,2% 183,69/km² Demonym  - English  - Catalan  - Spanish Balearic balear balear Statute of Autonomy March 1, 1983 ISO 3166... Roman Imperial province of Hispania Tarraconensis, 120 AD Hispania Tarraconensis was a Roman province in what is known today as modern Spain. ... Gallaecia or Callaecia was the name of a Roman province that comprised a territory in the north-west of Hispania (approximately the current Galicia of Spain and the north of Portugal). ... Roman province of Lusitania, 120 AD Lusitania, an ancient Roman province approximately including current Portugal and part of western current Spain (specifically the present autonomous community Estremadura), named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people. ... In the first century A.D., the Emperor Claudius divided the Roman province of Mauretania into Mauretania Caesariensis and Mauretania Tingitana. ... Hispania Nova (Latin for New Hispania) can mean: Two Roman provinces Hispania Nova Citerior Antoniniana (New Hither Hispania of Antoninus), established by Caracalla from a short time after 211 over the Gallaecian conventi of Bracara, Lucus and perhaps Asturica. ...

Praetorian prefecture of Italy and Africa (western)

Diocese of Italia annonaria

This name refers to reliance on the area for the provisioning of Rome.

• Venetia and Istria
• Aemilia
• Liguria
• Flaminia and Picenum Annonarium
• Alpes Cottiae
• Raetia I
• Raetia II

Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. ... The Roman Empire ca. ... The Roman Empire ca. ...

Diocese of Italia suburbicaria

The name refers to its nearness to Rome.

• Campania
• Tuscania et Umbria
• Picenum Suburbicarium
• Apulia et Calabria
• Bruttia et Lucania
• Samnium
• Valeria

It includes the islands: Campania is a region of Southern Italy, bordering on Lazio to the north-west, Molise to the north, Puglia to the north-east, Basilicata to the east, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. ... Samnite warriors Samnium (Oscan Safinim) was a region of the southern Apennines in Italy that was home to the Samnites, a group of Sabellic tribes that controlled the area from about 600 BC to about 290 BC. Samnium was delimited by Latium in the north, by Lucania in the south...

• Corsica
• Sicilia
• Sardinia

Capital Ajaccio Area 8,680 km² Regional President Ange Santini (UMP) (since 2004) Population  - 2004 estimate  - 1999 census  - Density (Ranked 25th) 272,000 260,196 31/km² (2004) Arrondissements 5 Cantons 52 Communes 360 Départements Corse-du-Sud Haute-Corse Note: The Regional Presidents title is President of... 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. ... Sardinia (Sardigna, Sardinna or Sardinnia in the Sardinian language, Sardegna in Italian, Sardenya in Catalan), is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily is the largest), between Italy, Spain and Tunisia, south of Corsica. ...

Diocese of Africa

• Africa proconsularis
• Byzacena
• Mauretania Caesariensis
• Numidia
• Tripolitana

(note above that the western most part of north Africa was in the diocese of Hispania)) At the end of the third century A.D., the Emperor Diocletian divided the great Roman province of Africa Proconsularis into smaller provinces, including Byzacena, corresponding now to the modern Sahel, region of Tunisia. ... In the first century A.D., the Emperor Claudius divided the Roman province of Mauretania into Mauretania Caesariensis and Mauretania Tingitana. ... Numidia was an ancient African Berber kingdom and later a Roman province on the northern coast of Africa between the province of Africa (where Tunisia is now) and the province of Mauretania (which is now the western part of Algerias coastal area). ...

Prefecture of Illyricum (originally eastern)

Prefecture of Illyricum was named after the former province of Illyricum (dissolved in 10 AD). The Prefecture of Illyricum originally included two dioceses: the Diocese of Pannonia and the Diocese of Moesia. The Diocese of Moesia was later split into two dioceses: the Diocese of Macedonia and the Diocese of Dacia. map of the praetorian prefecture of Illyricum, 318-379 AD The Praetorian prefecture of Illyricum (also termed simply the Prefecture of Illyricum) was one of four large prefectures (see Praetorian prefecture) into which the Late Roman Empire was divided. ... This article is about an ancient civilization in southeastern Europe; see also Illyria (software), Illyria (character in the TV series Angel). ... Events Differentiation of localized Teutonic tribes of the Irminones. ... The Diocese of Macedonia included the provinces of Macedonia Prima, Macedonia Salutaris, Thessalia, Epirus Vetus, Epirus Nova, Achaea, and Creta. ...

Diocese of Pannonia

This was one of the two dioceses in the eastern quarters of the tetrarchy not belonging to the cultural Greek half of the empire (the other was Dacia), and was transferred to the western empire in 395.

• Dalmatia
• Noricum mediterraneum
• Noricum ripense
• Pannonia I
• Pannonia II
• Savia
• Valeria ripensis

Dalmatia (Croatian Dalmacija, Italian Dalmazia, Serbian Далмација) is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, mostly in modern Croatia, spreading between the island of Pag in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. ... Species Savia arida Savia bahamensis Savia carnea Savia dictyocarpa Savia sessiliflora etc. ...

Diocese of Dacia

The Dacians had lived in the Transylvania area, annexed to the Empire by Trajan. However, during the invasions of the third century Dacia was largely abandoned. Inhabitants evacuated from the abandoned province were settled on the south side of the Danube and their new homeland renamed Dacia accordingly. The diocese was transferred to the western empire in 384 by Theodosius I, probably in partial compensation to the empress Justina for his recognition of the usurpation of Magnus Maximus in Britain, Gaul and Spain. Dacia, in the era of the Roman Empire, was the land of the Daci or Getae, and corresponds in the main to modern Romania and Moldova. ... Transylvania (Romanian: Transilvania or Ardeal, Hungarian: Erdély, German: Siebenbürgen, Serbian: Transilvanija, Turkish: Erdel, Slovak: Sedmohradsko or Transylvánia, Polish: Siedmiogród) forms the western and central parts of Romania. ... Emperor Trajan Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus (September 18, 53-August 9, 117), Roman Emperor (98-117), commonly called Trajan, was the second of the so-called Five Good Emperors of the Roman Empire. ...

• Dacia mediterranea
• Moesia I
• Praevalitana
• Dardania
• Dacia ripensis

Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, a subtribe of the Getae, was a large district of Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa (Tisza river, in Hungary), on the east by the Tyras... In ancient geography, Moesia was a district inhabited by a Thracian people. ... Dardania was a region encompassing the area of the modern-day southern Serbia, Kosovo, western Macedonia, and parts of northern Albania. ... Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, a subtribe of the Getae, was a large district of Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa (Tisza river, in Hungary), on the east by the Tyras...

Diocese of Macedonia

The Diocese of Macedonia was transferred to the western empire in 384 by Theodosius I, probably in partial compensation to the empress Justina for his recognition of the usurpation of Magnus Maximus in Britain, Gaul and Spain. The Diocese of Macedonia included the provinces of Macedonia Prima, Macedonia Salutaris, Thessalia, Epirus Vetus, Epirus Nova, Achaea, and Creta. ...

• Macedonia Prima
• Macedonia Salutaris (or Macedonia Secunda)
• Thessalia
• Epirus vetus
• Epirus nova
• Achaea
• Creta

The Roman province of Macedonia was officially established in 146 BC, after the Roman general Quintus Caecilius Metellus defeated Andriscus of Macedon in 148 BC, and after the four client republics established by Rome in the region were dissolved. ... The Roman province of Macedonia was officially established in 146 BC, after the Roman general Quintus Caecilius Metellus defeated Andriscus of Macedon in 148 BC, and after the four client republics established by Rome in the region were dissolved. ... Thessaly (Θεσσαλια; modern Greek Thessalía) is one of the 13 peripheries of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 prefectures. ... Achaea (Greek: , Akhaïa) is a province on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, stretching from the mountain ranges of Erymanthus and Cyllene on the south to a narrow strip of fertile land on the north, bordering the Gulf of Corinth, into which the mountain Panachaicus (1,902 m, the... Prehistoric Crete Little is known about the rise of ancient Cretan society, because very few written records remain. ...

Prefecture of Oriens ('the East')

As the rich home territory of the eastern emperor, the Eastern prefecture would persist as the core of the Byzantine Empire long after the fall of Rome. Its pretorian prefecture would be the last to survive. The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centred at its capital in Constantinople. ...

Diocese of Thrace

The eastern-most corner of the Balkans and the hinterland of Constantinople.

• Europa
• Thracia
• Haemimontium
• Rhodope
• Moesia II
• Scythia

Thrace is a historical and geographic area in south-east Europe spread over southern Bulgaria, north-eastern Greece, and European Turkey. ... In Greek mythology, Queen Rhodope of Thrace was the wife of Haemus. ... In ancient geography, Moesia was a district inhabited by a Thracian people. ...

Diocese of Asiana

Asia (or Asia Minor) in antiquity stands for Anatolia; this diocese centred on the earlier Roman province of Asia, and only covered the rich western part of the peninsula, mainly near the Aegean.

• Pamphylia
• Caria
• Lydia
• Lycia
• Lycaonia
• Pisidia
• Phrygia Pacatiana
• Phrygia Salutaria
• Asia
• Hellespontus

... and the adjoining (now mostly Greek) Aegean islands in the aptly named province Insulae Pamphylia, in ancient geography, was the region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean to Mount Taurus. ... Caria (Greek Καρία) was a region of Asia Minor, situated south of Ionia, and west of Phrygia and Lycia. ... Lydia was an ancient kingdom of Asia Minor, known to Homer as Mæonia. ... Lycia is a region on the southern coast of Turkey. ... In ancient geography, Lycaonia was a large region in the interior of Asia Minor, north of Mount Taurus. ... Pisidia was an inland region in southern Anatolia. ... The Roman province of Asia was the administrative unit added to the late Republic, a Senatorial province governed by a proconsul who was an ex-consul, an honor granted only to Asia and the other rich province of Africa. ...

Diocese of Pontus

The name is latinized from Greek Pontos: the name of a Hellenistic kingdom derived from Pontos (Euxinos), i.e. the (Black) Sea.

• Bithynia
• Galatia
• Paphlagonia
• Honorias
• Galatia Salutaris
• Cappadocia I
• Cappadocia II
• Helenopontus
• Pontus Polemoniacus
• Armenia I
• Armenia II

Bithynia was an ancient province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Black Sea (Euxine). ... Ancient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia (now Turkey). ... Paphlagonia was an ancient area on the northern central Black Sea coast of Anatolia, situated between Bithynia and Pontus, separated from Galatia by a prolongation to the east of the Bithynian Olympus. ... Cappadocia in 188 BC In ancient geography, Cappadocia (Greek: Καππαδοκία) was an extensive inland district of Asia Minor (modern Turkey). ...

Diocese of Oriens

The Eastern diocese comprised mainly the modern Arabic Machrak (Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine/-Israel and Jordan) except for the desert hinterland :

• Palestina I
• Palestina II
• Palestina Salutaris
• Syria
• Syria Salutaris
• Phoenicia
• Phoenicia Libani
• Eufratensis
• Osroene
• Mesopotamia
• Arabia

Further it contained the southeastern coast of Asia Minor ... The historic Philistines (see note Philistines below) were a people that inhabited the southern coast of Canaan around the time of the arrival of the Israelites, their territory being named Philistia in later contexts. ... Phoenicia was an ancient civilization in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal plain of what is now Lebanon and Syria. ... The term the Middle East sometimes applies to the peninsula alone, but usually refers to the Arabian Peninsula plus the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Iran. ...

• Cilicia I
• Cilicia II
• Isauria

... and one adjoining island: In ancient geography, Cilicia (Ki-LIK-ya) formed a district on the southeastern coast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey), north of Cyprus. ... Isauria, in ancient geography, is a district in the interior of South Asia Minor, of very different extent at different periods, but generally covering much of what is now south-central Turkey. ...

• Cyprus

Diocese of Egypt

Egypt, the rich granary and traditional 'pharaonic' crown domain of the emperors, was the only diocese (created by a split from Oriens) that was not under a vicarius, but whose head retained the unique title of Praefectus Augustalis. All but one, the civilian governors were of the modest rank of Praeses.

• Aegyptus specifically came to designate Lower Egypt, previously two provinces, named after the pagan titles of the two emperors under Diocletian : Aegyptus Iovia (from Juppiter, for the Augustus; with the metropole Alexandria) and Aegyptus Herculia (for his junior, the Caesar; with ancient Memphis)

+Augustamnica is a part of the delta (thirteen 'cities'), split off ? - the only Egyptian province under a Corrector (lowest ranking governor) Categories: Ancient Roman provinces | Egyptian history | Africa geography stubs ...

• Thebais is Upper Egypt; Nubia south of Philae had been abandoned to tribal people
• Arcadia ... (not Arcadia in Greece)

Apart from modern Egypt, it also comprises the former province of Cyrenaica, being the east of modern Libya (an ancient name for the whole African continent as well), split in two provinces, each under a praeses again : Arcadia or Arkadía (Greek Αρκαδία) is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. ... Roman province of Cyrenaica, 120 AD Cyrenaica was a Roman province on the northern coast of Africa between Egypt and Numidia; it had been formerly Greek. ...

• Libya Superior
• Libya Inferior

(Tripolitania, western Libya, was part of the western diocese of Africa; the desert tribes of Phazania, modern Fezzan, in the south, remained outside)

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