Dioecesis Africae
The Dioecesis Africae was a late antique administrative unit ( Dioecesis ) of the Roman and Eastern Roman Empire . It existed from 314 to 432 AD. The main town was Carthage .
Territory structure
The dioecesis Africae comprised the following 7 provinces:
- Africa Proconsularis / Zeugitana
- Byzacena
- Tripolitania
- Numidia cirtensis
- Numidia Militiana
- Mauretania Caesariensis
- Mauretania sitifensis / Tubusuctitana
Mauretania Tingitana was not part of the diocese .
history
The Roman Empire was initially divided into 46 provinces , which Diocletian essentially increased to 101 provinces by dividing around 300 AD, which in turn were combined into dioceses. The head of the dioceses (and provinces) was the vicarius , deputy of the civil officer who emerged from the military praetorian prefect after 312 . Already with the division of the empire in 395 , the structure of the dioceses was changed into four prefectures, 15 dioceses and 119 provinces. From this point on, the diocese was subordinate to the Prafectus praetorio per Orientem . With the conquest of Carthage by the Vandals in 432, the diocese came to an end. After the reconquest by Ostrom in 534, the praefectura praetorio Africae was established, which existed as the exarchate of Carthage until the year 680.
literature
- Timothy David Barnes : The new empire of Diocletian and Constantine. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) 1982, ISBN 0-674-61126-8 , pp. 201-208.
- Theodor Mommsen : Directory of the Roman provinces drawn up around 297. In: Treatises of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Phil.-hist. Class . 1862, pp. 489-518 ( digitized version ).
- Otto Seeck : Notitia dignitatum: accedunt Notitia urbis Constantinopolitanae et laterculi provinciarum. Weidmann, Berlin 1876, pp. 247-251 ( digitized version ).