Dioecesis Thraciarum

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The dioceses from about 293 to before 337.
The dioceses around AD 400 ( late antiquity )
The Roman "Diocese of Thrace" (Dioecesis Thraciae) around the year 400

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)

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