Augustamnica
Augustamnica ( Greek Αὐγουσταμνική ) was a Roman province in Egypt . It originated from part of the ancient province of Aegyptus Herculea established under Diocletian and was created in the 4th century. It included the eastern Nile Delta and initially belonged to the Dioecesis Orientis , later to the Dioecesis Aegypti . It became extinct with the Arab conquest of Egypt in the 640s.
Augustamnica
The province was created under the name of Aegyptus Herculia during the Roman Tetrarchy . It was transferred to Diocletian's co-regent Maximian (called: Herculius) with old Memphis as the capital (315-325). Soon after, however, it was reintegrated into the province of Aegyptus . In 341 the province was re-established under the name Augustamnica . The old Heptanomia also belonged to the provincial area .
It was the only province in Egypt to be subject to a corrector , a governor of lower rank.
Around 381 the provinces of Egypt were combined in a separate diocese ( Dioecesis Aegypti ). Between 386 and the end of the 4th century, the new province of Arcadia Aegypti (after Emperor Arcadius ) emerged from the parts of Augustamnica that belonged to the Heptanomia . In this context, the capital was moved from Augustamnica to Pelusium .
In military administration, the province was subject to a Comes limitis Aegypti . According to the Notitia dignitatum , numerous military units were stationed in the province under his command (see Roman forces in Aegyptus ).
Augustamnica I and II
Before 539 Augustamnica was divided into two provinces: Augustamnica Prima (north) and Augustamnica Secunda (south).
Augustamnica Prima kept Pelusium as the administrative center under a corrector . This part included the cities of Pelusium, Sethroites (Sethraites), Tanis (Pannis), Thmuis , Rhinokorura, Ostrakine (Ostranika), Pentaschoinon, Kasion , Aphnaion (Aphtaion), Hephaistos , Panephusos (Panithysus), Gerrha (Geros), Thenessos . Leontopolis was the metropolis of Augustamnica Secunda. The cities of Leontopolis, Athribes (Athrides), Helius, Bubastus, Pharzisthos (Karbeuthos, probably meant Pharbaetus), Arabia, Klysma belonged to this part.
Titular dioceses
The Catholic Church runs some of the former episcopal see in the province as titular bishoprics .
In the Annuario Pontificio , several dioceses are run as titular bishopric seats:
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In Augustamnica II are:
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literature
- James K. Keenan: Egypt. In: Averil Cameron , Bryan Ward-Perkins , Michael Whitby (Eds.): The Cambridge Ancient History . Volume 14: Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, AD 425-600. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 978-0-521-32591-2 , pp. 612-637 ( online ).
- Richard Pietschmann : Augustamnica . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Col. 2362.
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard JA Talbert (Ed.): Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World . Princeton University Press, Princeton (NJ) 2000, ISBN 0-691-03169-X , p. 102.
- ^ Alan K. Bowman: Egypt after the Pharaohs: 332 BC-AD 642. From Alexander to the Arab Conquest. University of California Press, Berkeley 1996, ISBN 0-520-20531-6 , p. 79.
- ↑ a b c Keenan, p. 613.
- ^ Notitia dignitatum in partibus Orientis XXVIII ( online ).
- ↑ Georgios Kyprios 685-700 (= Heinrich Gelzer : Georgii Cyprii Descriptio orbis romani, accedit Leonis Imperatoris Diatyposis Genuina adhuc inedita. Teubner, Leipzig 1890, p. 35, digitized ); Hierokles , Synekdemos 726.3 - 727.6 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Georgios Kyprios 701-707; Hierocles, Synekdemos 727.13 - 728.7.
- ↑ a b Annuario Pontificio 2013. Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1 , pp. 819-1013.