Regio (Italy)
A Regio (Latin, plural regiones ) was a geographical and administrative division of Italy during the Roman Empire . It was introduced under Augustus and lasted until Diocletian's administrative reform , when Italy was also divided into provinces .
Since the alliance war , practically all residents of Italy had Roman citizenship . From 40 BC Today's Upper Italy, previously administered as the province of Gallia cisalpina , was also counted as part of Italy; the islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica surrounding Italy, on the other hand, remained separate provinces even during the imperial era.
The eleven regions established under Augustus mostly bore the names of historical landscapes and peoples. They only got a certain administrative role from the 2nd century onwards.
- Region I: Latium et Campania
- Regio II: Apulia et Calabria (also Apulia et Hirpini ; today's North and Central Apulia , Salento )
- Regio III: Bruttium et Lucania (about modern Calabria and Basilicata )
- Regio IV: Samnium (central central Italy; included the area of the Pentri )
- Regio V: Picenum (middle Adriatic coast)
- Regio VI: Umbria (including the ager Gallicus on the Adriatic coast)
- Region VII: Etruria
- Regio VIII: Aemilia
- Regio IX: Liguria
- Region X: Venetia et Histria
- Regio XI: Transpadana ( Lombardy and northern Piedmont )
literature
- Massimo Pallottino : Italy before Roman times . Beck, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-406-32012-0 , pp. 179-181.
- Antonio Sartori: Regio, regiones. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 , column 831 f.
- Rudi Thomsen: The Italic Regions from Augustus to the Lombard invasion Copenhagen 1947. Reprint: L'Erma di Bretschneider, Rome 1966 (Studia historica; 23).