Libya superior

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Location of Libya superior in the west of the Dioecesis Aegypti

Libya superior was a province of the Roman Empire in late antiquity. It included the landscape of Cyrenaica in eastern Libya . The province was also known as the Pentapolis . The provincial capital was initially Ptolemais and from the fifth or early sixth century Apollonia .

Libya superior was created around 300 under Diocletian , who, as part of his imperial reforms , divided the province of Creta et Cyrene into the three provinces of Creta , Libya inferior and Libya superior. From a military point of view, Libya superior and Libya superior were subordinate to the Dux of Egypt , but were later administered and protected militarily from the province ( Synesios , Letters 95). A decree by Anastasius shows a crew that consisted of five units.

In the course of the reform, the provinces were combined into dioceses , with Libya superior being incorporated into the Dioecesis Orientis . Around 380 Theodosius divided the provinces Libya superior, Libya inferior, Thebais , Aegyptus , Arcadia and Augustamnica from the Dioecesis Orientis and established the Dioecesis Aegypti from these provinces . As vicarius of the new diocese, he installed his son Arcadius . After the division of the Roman Empire in 395 , Libya superior remained as an Eastern Roman province .

The province flourished again in the 5th and 6th centuries. Churches have been built in many, even smaller places, such as Gasr Silu or Lamluda .

With the conquest of Cyrenaica as part of the Islamic expansion in 643, the province became extinct.

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