Flavia Caesariensis
The Flavia Caesariensis was a province of the Roman Empire and located in what is now the United Kingdom . Their emergence goes back to the reorganization of the Roman provincial system under Emperor Diocletian . Launched in the first half of the 4th century AD, its capital, Lindum Colonia, was likely located in what is now Lincoln .
The limits
The boundaries of the province have not been recorded with certainty, but they seem to have stretched from the southern Pennines west to the Irish Sea and to the Iceni region in the south. Since the capital of the northern province of Britannia secunda was located in Eboracum , today's York , the provincial border can only have been a little further north of Lincoln. In the south, Flavia Caesariensis came up against the limits of Maxima Caesariensis , a province with which it seems to have been united before, as the common epithet suggests.
British historians such as Eric Birley have suggested that when Emperor Maximian's Caesar Gaius Flavius Valerius Constantius, known as Constantius Chlorus , visited Britain in 296 , the province of Britannia superior was divided into the provinces of Britannia prima and Britannia Caesariensis . Britannia Caesariensis with the capital Londinium ( London ) got the honorable nickname of Constantius Chlorus after his victory over the opposing Emperor Allectus, who was proclaimed in Britain . Later the province was divided into a northern part, Flavia Caesariensis , with the capital Lindum Colonia , and a southern part, Maxima Caesariensis , with the capital Londinium . Parts of the earlier Britannia inferior to Flavia Caesariensis were probably also struck, which explains the close proximity of the northern border of this province to the capital of the neighboring province of Britannia secunda , which arose from Britannia inferior .