Diospontus

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The Roman province of Bithynia et Pontus before Diocletian's provincial reform in 295

During the provincial reform of Emperor Diocletian in 295, Bithynia et Pontus was divided into the provinces of Bithynia , Paphlagonia and Diospontus, also Diospontus . The area of ​​Diospontus extended over the eastern Black Sea coast of today's Turkey around the city of Sinop .

Constantine the Great later expanded the provincial area and named it after his mother Helena in Helenopontus order.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Löhberg: The "itinerarium Provinciarum Antonini Augusti" (p. 144)
  2. ^ Christian Marek : Pontus et Bithynia. The Roman provinces in northern Asia Minor . von Zabern Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-2925-3
  3. ^ The Cambridge ancient history. 12. “The” crisis of empire, AD 193-337 (p. 709)
  4. ^ Ernest Leroux: Revue archéologique (p. 383)