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

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:35:50 +0100, g <george.st@...> wrote:

>Have a look at this map: http://dioceses.notlong.com
>
>... circa AD 400, according to <<Notitia dignitatum>>, after Jones, A.H.M.,
>'The Later Roman Empire,' 1986 (Johns Hopkins).

Yes, a similar map appears in the Encyclopaedia Brittanica.

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

Note how this later Illyricum includes only a sliver (Montenegro) of the
real Illyricum as it was in Augustus' time. For the rest, it's what used
to be Moesia Superior (Diocese of Dacia), Macedonia (Diocese of Macedonia)
and Greece (Proconsulate of Achaea), plus a bit of Thrace (e.g. the capital
of the Dacian Diocese, Sardica, used to be in Thrace). Illyricum itself
was in the 4th century included in the Prefecture of Italy, Diocese of
Italy, and divided into Pannonia I, Pannonia II, Valeria Ripensis, Savia
and Dalmatia.

Thrace was included in the Prefecture of the East.

>(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.

Diocletian, in his wisdom, reorganized the empire so that Moesia Superior
(Serbia) came to lie within Illyricum (to keep the Albanians happy), was
renamed Dacia (to keep the Romanians happy) and got a Thracian capital (to
keep the Bulgarians happy). You can't, of course, keep the Serbians happy
:-).


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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