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{{Short description|Roman/Byzantine province (c. 341–7th Century)}}
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'''Euphratensis''' ([[Latin]] for "[[Euphrates|Euphratean]]"; {{lang-grc-gre|Εὑφρατησία}}, ''Euphratēsía''), fully '''Augusta Euphratensis''', was a late Roman and then [[Byzantine province]] in [[Syria (region)|Syrian region]], part of the Byzantine [[Diocese of the East]].

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'''Euphratensis''' ([[Latin]] for "[[Euphrates|Euphratean]]"; {{lang-grc-gre|Εὑφρατησία}}, ''Euphratēsía''), fully '''Augusta Euphratensis''', was a late Roman and then [[Byzantine province]] in [[Syria (region)|Syrian region]], part of the Byzantine [[Diocese of the East]].


==History==
==History==
Sometime between 330 and 350 (likely {{c.|341}}), the Roman province of ''Euphratensis'' was created out of the territory of ''[[Syria Coele]]'' along the western bank of the [[Euphrates]].<ref name='kazhdan'>{{cite book | first = Alexander (Ed.) | last = Kazhdan | title = [[Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium]] | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1991 | isbn = 978-0-19-504652-6 | page=748}}</ref> It included the territories of [[Commagene]] and [[Cyrrhestice]]. Its capital was [[Cyrrus]]<ref>Edmund Spenser Bouchier, ''Syria as a Roman Province'', 1916, [https://books.google.com/books?id=jBU5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA155 p. 155]</ref> or perhaps [[Hierapolis Bambyce]].<ref name='kazhdan'/> It remained within the Byzantine Empire following the 395 division of the empire by [[Theodosius I]].
Sometime between 330 and 350 AD (likely {{circa|lk=no|341}}), the Roman province of ''Euphratensis'' was created out of the territory of [[Coele Syria (Roman province)|Coele Syria]] along the western bank of the [[Euphrates]].<ref name='kazhdan'>{{cite book | editor-first = Alexander | editor-last = Kazhdan | title = [[Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium]] | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1991 | isbn = 978-0-19-504652-6 | page=748}}</ref> It included the territories of [[Commagene]] and [[Cyrrhestice]]. Its capital was [[Cyrrus]]<ref>Edmund Spenser Bouchier, ''Syria as a Roman Province'', 1916, [https://archive.org/details/cu31924028520728/page/n170 p. 155]</ref> or perhaps [[Hierapolis Bambyce]].<ref name='kazhdan'/> It remained within the Byzantine Empire following the 395 division of the empire by [[Theodosius I]].


The province is listed in the [[Laterculus Veronensis]] from around 314.
== Episcopal sees ==
Ancient episcopal sees of the Roman province of '''Syria Euphratensis Prima''' listed in the ''[[Annuario Pontificio]]'' as [[titular see]]s:<ref name=AP>''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013</ref>
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* [[Barbalissus]]
* [[Cyrrhus]], ?Archbishopric
* [[Dülük|Doliche]]
* Europus ([[Dura-Europos]])
* [[Germanicia]]
* '''[[Hierapolis in Syria]] (alias Hierapolis Euphratensis, Hierapolis Bambyce), the Metropolitan Archbishopric
* [[Neocaesarea in Syria]]
* [[Perrhe]] (Adıyaman)
* [[Samosata]]
* [[Sura, Syria|Sura]]
* [[Urima]]
* [[Zeugma, Commagene|Zeugma in Syria]]
}}


The Roman Catholic and Orthodox saints [[Sergius and Bacchus]] were supposedly martyred in the city of [[Resafa]] in Euphratensis, and the city was later renamed Sergiopolis. Other cities in the province were [[Samosata]] and [[Zeugma, Commagene|Zeugma]].
Ancient episcopal sees of the Roman province of '''Syria Euphratensis Secunda''' listed in the ''[[Annuario Pontificio]]'' as [[titular see]]s:<ref name=AP/>
{{columns-list|3|
* Agrippias (ruins of Saliliyé)
* Orisa (Tayibe)
* '''[[Sergiopolis]], the Metropolitan Archbishopric
* [[Serigene]] (Isriyë)
* Zenobias (ruins of Halabiyé)
}}


== References ==
== References ==
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Provincia Augusta Euphratensis
ἐπαρχία Εὑφρατησίας
Province of the Byzantine Empire
c. 341–7th Century

Diocese of Orient circa 400, showing Euphratensis
CapitalCyrrus or Hierapolis Bambyce
Historical eraLate Antiquity
• Established
c. 341
• Division of the empire by Theodosius I
395
7th Century
 Succeeded by
Rashidun Caliphate
Today part ofSyria
Turkey

Euphratensis (Latin for "Euphratean"; Greek: Εὑφρατησία, Euphratēsía), fully Augusta Euphratensis, was a late Roman and then Byzantine province in Syrian region, part of the Byzantine Diocese of the East.

History[edit]

Sometime between 330 and 350 AD (likely c. 341), the Roman province of Euphratensis was created out of the territory of Coele Syria along the western bank of the Euphrates.[1] It included the territories of Commagene and Cyrrhestice. Its capital was Cyrrus[2] or perhaps Hierapolis Bambyce.[1] It remained within the Byzantine Empire following the 395 division of the empire by Theodosius I.

The province is listed in the Laterculus Veronensis from around 314.

The Roman Catholic and Orthodox saints Sergius and Bacchus were supposedly martyred in the city of Resafa in Euphratensis, and the city was later renamed Sergiopolis. Other cities in the province were Samosata and Zeugma.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press. p. 748. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.
  2. ^ Edmund Spenser Bouchier, Syria as a Roman Province, 1916, p. 155
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