Dioecesis Pontica
The Dioecesis Pontica ( ancient Greek Διοίκησις Πόντου / Ποντικής Dioikesis Pontou / Pontikes ) was a late antique administrative unit ( Dioecesis ) of the Roman or Eastern Roman Empire . It existed from 314 to 535 and from 548 to the 7th century. The main town was Amasia .
Territory structure
The Dioecesis Pontica comprised the following 7 provinces:
- Bithynia
- Cappadocia
- Galatia
- Paphlagonia
- Diospontus
- Pontus Polemoniacus
- Armenia minor
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 late antique diocesan structure was only abandoned in favor of the thematic constitution in view of the Islamic expansion (from 630) .
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 ).