Dioecesis Moesiae
The Dioecesis Moesiae (Greek: Διοίκησις Μοισιών ) was a late antique administrative unit ( Dioecesis ) of the Roman Empire in southeastern Europe. It existed from 293 to before 337 AD.
Territory structure
The Dioecesis Moesiae comprised the following 11 provinces:
- Dacia Mediterranea
- Dacia ripensis
- Moesia superior / Margensis
- Dardania
- Macedonia
- Thessalia
- Achaea
- Praevalitana
- Epirus nova
- Epirus vetus
- Creta
The province of Moesia inferior on the southern bank of the lower Danube did not belong to 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 under Constantine the Great (before the year of his death in 337) the diocese was divided into the Dioecesis Macedoniae and the Dioecesis Daciae .
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 ).