Dioecesis Thraciarum
The Dioecesis Thraciarum (also Dioecesis Thraciae , Greek: Διοίκησις Θράκης ) was a late antique administrative unit ( Dioecesis ) of the Roman or Eastern Roman Empire in southeastern Europe. It existed from 314 to 535 AD. The main place was Philippopolis .
Territory structure
The Dioecesis Thraciarum comprised the following 6 provinces:
- Europe , the southeastern part of the old province of Thrace, with the new provincial capital Perinthos, which had since been renamed Herakleia (today Marmara Ereğlisi )
- Rhodope , the southwestern part of the old province of Thrace, with the new provincial capital Aenus (now Enez in Turkey)
- Thracia , the northwestern part of the ancient province of Thrace
- Haemimontus , the northeastern part of the old province of Thrace, with the new provincial capital Hadrianopolis
- Scythia , in today's Romanian Dobruja
- Moesia inferior , on the southern bank of the Lower Danube (Danuvius)
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. Under Justinian I , the diocese was abolished in 535.
List of known Vicarii Thraciarum
- Aelius Claudius Dulcitius (? –361)
- Capitolinus (361-363)
- Andronicus (approx. 366)
- Philoxenus (approx. 392)
- Solomon (? -582)
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 ).