Dioecesis Galliae
The Dioecesis Galliae (also Dioecesis Galliarum ) was a late antique administrative unit ( Dioecesis ) of the Roman Empire . It existed from 314 to 486 after Christ. Most of the time the main town was Augusta Treverorum .
Territory structure
The Dioecesis Galliae comprised the following eight provinces:
- Belgica great
- Belgica secunda
- Germania great
- Germania secunda
- Sequania
- Lugdunensis Great
- Lugdunensis secunda
- Alpes Graiae et Poeninae (See Alpes Graiae and Alpes Poenina .)
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. With the defeat of Syagrius in the Battle of Soissons (486) the diocese came to an end.
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 ).
- Ulrich Nonn : On the administrative organization in the northern Galloromania. In: Dieter Geuenich (Hrsg.): The Franks and the Alemannen up to the "Battle of Zülpich" (496/97) (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Supplementary volumes. Vol. 19). De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1998, ISBN 3-11-015826-4 , pp. 82-94.
- Otto Seeck : Notitia dignitatum: accedunt Notitia urbis Constantinopolitanae et laterculi provinciarum. Weidmann, Berlin 1876, pp. 247-251 ( digitized version ).