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Year 117 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Niger and Apronianus (or, less frequently, year 870 Ab urbe condita ).
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.
The Roman empire in the time of Hadrian (ruled 117–138 AD), showing, in western Anatolia, the senatorial province of Asia (southwestern Turkey). Asia ( Ancient Greek : Ἀσία ) was a Roman province covering most of western Asia Minor (Anatolia), which was created following the Roman Republic 's annexation of the Attalid Kingdom in 133 BC.
Map of the Roman Empire during the reign of emperor Hadrian, 125 AD. The borders of the Roman Empire, which fluctuated throughout the empire's history, were realised as a combination of military roads and linked forts, natural frontiers (most notably the Rhine and Danube rivers) and man-made fortifications which separated the lands of the empire from the countries beyond.
In 286 AD, the Emperor Diocletian moved the imperial residence associated with the western provinces (the later Western Roman Empire) from Rome to Mediolanum. [11] Meanwhile, the islands of Corsica , Sardinia , Sicily and Malta were added to Italy by Diocletian in 292 AD, and Italian cities such as Mediolanum and Ravenna continued to serve as ...
Cappadocia was a province of the Roman Empire in Anatolia (modern central-eastern Turkey), with its capital at Caesarea.It was established in 17 AD by the Emperor Tiberius (ruled 14–37 AD), following the death of Cappadocia's last king, Archelaus.
category:Provinces of the Roman Republic for provinces established during the Roman Republic, before the reign of emperor Augustus. category:Late Roman provinces for provinces established after the year 280, i.e. from the administrative reforms of Diocletian onwards.
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