Dioecesis Septem Provinciarum
The Dioecesis Septem Provinciarum , originally called Dioecesis Viennensis , was a late antique administrative unit ( Dioecesis ) of the Roman Empire . It existed from 314 to 477 AD. The main locations were Vienna (Vienne) and Burdigala (Bordeaux).
Territory structure
The Dioecesis Septem Provinciarum comprised the following 7 provinces:
- Viennensis
- Narbonensis great
- Narbonensis secunda
- Novem Populi
- Aquitanica great
- Aquitanica secunda
- Alpes Maritimae
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 diocese came to an end with the conquest by the Visigoths and shortly afterwards by the Franks .
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 ).