Haemimontus
Haemimontus or Haemimontium was one of the provinces founded by the Roman emperor Diocletian in 294 and was formed as part of the former province of Thracia in the Dioecesis Thracia . The province extended in the eastern part of today's Upper Thracian Plain in eastern Bulgaria and in the Turkish north. Neighboring provinces were Moesia in the north, Thracia in the west, Rhodope in the southwest, and Europe in the south. In the east, the Haemimontium province bordered the Black Sea (Pontos Euxeinos).
The center of the province was the city of Hadrianopolis , other important cities were Anchialos , Deultum , Aquae Calidae , Mesembria and Augusta Traiana . Along the Black Sea coast, the cities were connected by the Roman road Via Pontica (also known as the sea route or coastal route). Another road connection was the Via Militaris , with two branches in Hadrianopolis, one to the east to Develtum, Aquae Calidae, Anchialos and the Black Sea and one to the north with another branch in Marcellae (today near Karnobat ) to the northeast to Marcianopolis and northwest led to Nicopolis ad Istrum .
literature
- Peter Soustal: Thrakien (Thrakē, Rodopē and Haimimontos) (= Tabula Imperii Byzantini , Volume 6), Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-7001-1898-8 , pp. 47–49, 63, 126– 128.