Dioecesis Orientis
The Dioecesis Orientis (German: Diocese of the East , Greek: Ἑῴα Διοίκησις Heoa Dioíkesis ) was a late antique administrative unit ( Dioecesis ) of the Roman or Eastern Roman Empire . It existed from 314 to 636 after Christ.
Territory structure
The Dioecesis Orientis comprised the following 17 provinces:
- Libya superior
- Libya inferior
- Thebais (until 395)
- Aegyptus Iovia (until 395)
- Aegyptus Herculea (until 395)
- Arabia Petraea
- Arabia nova
- Augusta Lebanensis
- Palestine salutaris
- Syria Phoenice
- Syria Coele
- Augusta Euphratensis
- Cilicia
- Isauria
- Cyprus
- Mesopotamia
- Osrhoene
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. The Dioecesis Orientis was outsourced to the Dioecesis Aegypti . The late antique diocesan structure was only abandoned in favor of the thematic constitution in view of the Islamic expansion (from 630) .
List of known comites Orientis
- Lollianus Mavortius (330–336)
- Felicianus (335–?)
- Nebridius (354-358)
- Domitius Modestus (358–362)
- Publilius Caeionius Iulianus (362–363)
- Aradius Rufinus (363–364)
- Flavius Eutolmius Tatianus (c. 370)
- Tuscianus (381)
- Flavius Eparchius Philagrius ( ca.382 )
- Proculus (383-384)
- Icarius (approx. 384)
- Irenaeus (431-435)
- Ephraim of Amida (approx. 522 – approx. 525)
- Asterius (587-588)
- Bacchus (588-589)
- Bonosus (approx. 609–610)
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 ).