Dioecesis Hispaniae
The Dioecesis Hispaniae was a late antique administrative unit ( Dioecesis ) of the Roman Empire on the Iberian Peninsula . It existed from 314 to around 409 AD. The main town was Emerita Augusta .
Territory structure
The Dioecesis Hispaniae comprised the following 6 provinces:
The Balearic Islands (Balearica) were detached from the Carthaginiensis province as an independent province in the 4th century.
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 conquest by the Vandals , Alans and Suebi in 409, 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 ).
- Otto Seeck : Notitia dignitatum: accedunt Notitia urbis Constantinopolitanae et laterculi provinciarum. Weidmann, Berlin 1876, pp. 247-251 ( digitized version ).