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The Roman Empire under Hadrian (125) showing the provinces as then organised. The Roman provinces (Latin: provincia, pl. provinciae) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. Each province was ruled by a Roman appointed as governor.
Tabula Peutingeriana (section of a modern facsimile), top to bottom: Dalmatian coast, Adriatic Sea, southern Italy, Sicily, African Mediterranean coast. Tabula Peutingeriana (Latin for 'The Peutinger Map'), also referred to as Peutinger's Tabula, [1] Peutinger tables [2] or Peutinger Table, is an illustrated itinerarium (ancient Roman road map) showing the layout of the cursus publicus, the ...
In the first century BC, the eastern parts of the plain belonged to the Dacian state, and in the first century AD its western parts were subsumed into the Roman Empire. The Roman province named Pannonia was established in the area, and the city of Sirmium, today Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, became one of the four capital cities of the Roman ...
The Roman provinces of Asia Minor under Trajan, including Galatia. Galatia (/ ɡ ə ˈ l eɪ ʃ ə /) was the name of a province of the Roman Empire in Anatolia (modern central Turkey). It was established by the first emperor, Augustus (sole rule 30 BC – 14 AD), in 25 BC, covering most of formerly independent Celtic Galatia, with its capital ...
Pannonia Inferior, lit.Lower Pannonia, was a province of the Roman Empire.Its capital was Sirmium.It was one of the border provinces on the Danube. It was formed in the year 103 AD by Emperor Trajan who divided the former province of Pannonia into two parts: Pannonia Superior and Pannonia Inferior.
Provinces should be diffused into the following sub-categories: category:Provinces of the Roman Republic for provinces which were established during the Roman Republic, before Augustus. category:Provinces of the Roman Empire for provinces which were established during the Roman Empire, from Augustus onwards. They may also feature in:
The codex—pages bound to a spine—was still a novelty in the 1st century, [444] but by the end of the 3rd century was replacing the volumen. [445] Commercial book production was established by the late Republic, [446] and by the 1st century certain neighbourhoods of Rome and Western provincial cities were known for their bookshops. [447]
Map of the province of Judaea during Coponius' governorship. He was, like the prefects who succeeded him, of knightly rank, and "had the power of life and death". [2] During his administration the revolt of Judas the Galilean occurred, [3] the cause of which was not so much the personality of Coponius as the introduction of Roman soldiers.