Dioecesis Daciae

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The dioceses around AD 400 ( late antiquity )

The Dioecesis Daciae was a late antique administrative unit ( Dioecesis ) of the Roman or Eastern Roman Empire , which included large parts of the Balkans . It existed from around 337 to around 602 AD. The main town was Serdica, today's Sofia .

Territory structure

The Dioecesis Daciae comprised the following 5 provinces:

  • Dacia Mediterranea (the southern part of Dacia Aureliana )
  • Dacia Ripensis (the northern part of Dacia Aureliana on the Danube)
  • Moesia Prima (the northern part of Moesia Superior )
  • Dardania (the southern part of Moesia Superior)
  • Praevalitana (the eastern part of Dalmatia ).

With the province of Dacia (Latin Dacia), which had been a province of the Roman Empire in the north of the lower Danube from 106 to 271, the diocese had only the name in common.

history

The dioceses as an administrative unit were founded by Emperor Diocletian . The head of the dioceses (and provinces) was the vicarius , deputy of the civil officer who emerged from the military praetorian prefect after 312 . The provinces of the Daciae diocese did not originally form a separate diocese, but were part of the Dioecesis Moesiae . It was only around the year 337 that they were combined into a separate diocese. Already with the division of the empire in 395 the structure of the dioceses was changed into four prefectures, 15 dioceses and 119 provinces. The diocese belonged to Ostrom and from this point on was subordinate to the praefectus praetorio per Illyricum (Greek: ἐπαρχότης / ὑπαρχία [τῶν πραιτωρίων] τοῦ Ἰλλυρικοῦ) . The diocese was devastated by the Huns in the middle of the 5th century and finally overrun by the Avars and Slavs at the end of the 6th and beginning of the 7th century .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notitia Dignitatum , in partibus Orientis I .

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