Syria Phoenice
The Roman province of Syria Phoenice was created in 193/194 when the province of Syria was divided into the two provinces Syria Coele and Syria Phoenice . It was again divided into even smaller units ( Phenicia and Phenicia Libani ) in late antiquity .
history
Syria was founded in 63 BC. Established by the general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and remained part of the Roman Empire or (since 395) the Eastern Roman Empire until the conquest by the Arabs in the 630s . Today's Syria , which includes a little less than the territory of the Roman province, is named after her.
The area of the Syrian provinces nevertheless experienced a heyday until the middle of the 6th century and thus represented one of the most important regions of the empire next to Egypt , even though the Persian Sassanids had invaded again and again since the 3rd century . As part of the Islamic conquest of the Levant , the Muslim caliphate gained control of the area in the first half of the 7th century.
See also
literature
- Julia Hoffmann-Salz: The economic effects of the Roman conquest. Comparative studies of the provinces Hispania Tarraconensis, Africa Proconsularis and Syria (= Historia . Individual writings . Volume 218 ). Steiner, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-09847-2 , pp. 294–440 ( review by H-Soz-Kult ).
- Marco Vitale: Koinon Syrias. Priests, grammar schoolchildren and metropolis of the eparchies in imperial Syria (= Klio . Supplements . Volume 20 ). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-006436-9 .
Coordinates: 36 ° N , 36 ° E