Dioceses of the E-Roman Emp. [Re: Older Dacian...]

> >Please take a look where the Danube is in your geographical map and
> >where the Mountain Haemus are too (Moesia)...you will see that the
> >split line in the second map (even the scales between the 2 maps are
> >not the sames) are in my opinion in the Haemus mountains, so Moesia
> >is basically a Daco-Getae region.
>
>Sorry, when I say Moesia, I mean Moesia Superior (Moesia Inferior, a thin
>strip of Dacia south of the Danube, is irrelevant to the "Albanian homeland
>question").
>
>Moesia Superior is the Morava basin, basically modern Serbia.
>
>Illyricum is Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia,
>East-Austria and West-Hungary. (Later divided into Dalmatia (= Montenegro,
>Bosnia-H, Croatia/Dalmatia) and Pannonia (= Croatia/Slavonija, Slovenia and
>Austria/Hungary up to the Danube).
>=======================
>Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

Have a look at this map: http://dioceses.notlong.com

i.e. the shortened URL for:
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/vwp?.dir=/Imperium+Romanum+orientale&.dnm=dioceses400+AD.gif&.src=gr&.view=t&.hires=t

... circa AD 400, according to <<Notitia dignitatum>>, after Jones, A.H.M.,
'The Later Roman Empire,' 1986 (Johns Hopkins).

Methinks the most relevant to this discussion would have been the
provinces within the Dioceses Daciae and Thraciae -- namely within the...
Praefectura Illyrici:

(1) Moësia I; Praevalitana; Dardania; Dacia mediterranea; Dacia ripensis
(i.e., roughly today's Serbia and West Bulgaria)

as well as

(2) Moësia II (today's N-E Bulgaria); Scythia (the latter a.k.a. Dobrudja).

and perhaps

(3) Epirus; Macedonia (& Rhodope?) as well.

So, quite a territory outside of... Thracia proper.

George