Dioecesis Macedoniae

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The dioceses around AD 400 ( late antiquity )

The Dioecesis Macedoniae (Greek Διοίκησις Μακεδονίας ) was a late antique administrative unit ( Dioecesis ) of the Roman or Eastern Roman Empire , which included large parts of today's Greece . It existed from around 337 until the 7th century. The main town was Thessaloniki .

Territory structure

The Dioecesis Macedoniae comprised the following 7 provinces:

  • Macedonia Great
  • Macedonia Secunda or Macedonia Salutaris (abolished and rebuilt several times)
  • Thessalia
  • Epirus vetus
  • Epirus nova
  • Achaea
  • Creta

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 Diocese of Macedoniae 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 praefectura 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 Slavs in the 7th century .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notitia Dignitatum , in partibus Orientis I .

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