Byzacena Explained

Native Name:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: ἐπαρχία Βυζακινῆς
Common Name:Byzacena
Subdivision:Province
Nation:the Late Roman Empire - Byzantine Empire
Era:Late Antiquity - Early Middle Ages
Capital:Hadrumetum
Title Leader:Consularis
Image Map Caption:Map of Roman Africa and Egypt; Byzacena shown in top right.
Life Span:293–439
534–698
Year Start:c. 293
Event Start:Division by Diocletian
Event1:Vandal Conquest of Carthage
Date Event1:439
Event2:Byzantine reconquest by Vandalic War
Date Event2:534
Event3:Reorganization into the Exarchate
Date Event3:591
Year End:698
Event End:Fall of Carthage
Today:Tunisia
P1:Africa (Roman province)
Flag P1:Vexilloid of the Roman Empire.svg
S1:Vandal Kingdom
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P2:Vandal Kingdom
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S2:Ifriqiya
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Image Map2:Map_of_Byzacena.png
Image Map2 Caption:The Province of Byzacena, showing its territorial extent, capital and major cities.

Byzacena (or Byzacium) (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Βυζάκιον, Byzakion)[1] was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis.

History

At the end of the 3rd century AD, the Roman emperor Diocletian divided the great Roman province of Africa Proconsularis into three smaller provinces: Zeugitana in the north, still governed by a proconsul and referred to as Proconsularis; Byzacena to its adjacent south, and Tripolitania to its adjacent south, roughly corresponding to southeast Tunisia and northwest Libya. Byzacena corresponded roughly to eastern Tunisia or the modern Tunisian region of Sahel.

Hadrumetum (modern Sousse) became the capital of the newly made province, whose governor had the rank of consularis. At this period the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Byzacena was, after the great metropolis Carthage, the most important city in Roman (North) Africa west of Egypt and its Patriarch of Alexandria.

Episcopal sees

Ancient episcopal sees of Byzacena listed in the Annuario Pontificio as titular sees:[2]

See also

Sources and external links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4029.tlg001.perseus-grc1:4.12 Procopius, History of the Wars, §4.12
  2. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013,), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
  3. located at Latitude: 36.19392 - Longitude: 10.02064.

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