Valentia (Roman Province)
Valentia was a province of the Roman Empire in what is now Great Britain . It was named after Emperor Valentinian I , who established it by the comes Flavius Theodosius in 369 AD. She had a consularis as governor.
The location and size of the province are controversial in research. Northern Wales or a division of the existing province of Britannia secunda with the capital Eboracum ( York ) were proposed . Valentia could have been the area of present-day Cumbria . It is extremely unlikely that the province, as older reconstructions believed, was north of Hadrian's Wall in southern Scotland. It was also suggested that Valentia was not a province, but rather the temporary designation of the diocese of the British provinces.
literature
- JGF Hind: The British 'provinces' of Valentia and Orcades (Tacitean echoes in Ammianus Marcellinus and Claudian) . In: Historia . Volume 34, 1975, pp. 101-111.
- Peter Salway: Roman Britain . University Press, Oxford 1981. Paperback 1984 edition, reprinted 1990, ISBN 0-19-285143-8 , pp. 392-396. 411.
- Sheppard Frere : Britannia. A history of Roman Britain . 3rd further revised edition. Folio Society, London 1999, p. 205 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- Anthony R. Birley : The Roman government of Britain . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005, ISBN 0-19-925237-8 , pp. 399-400 (not evaluated).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus 28, 3, 7 .
- ^ Notitia dignitatum Occ. 23 .
- ↑ JGF Hind: The British 'provinces' of Valentia and Orcades . In: Historia . Volume 34, 1975, pp. 101-111.