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Roman province

Roman administrative territorial entity

24 dated entries naming Roman province, drawn from 24 separate years between 206 BCE and 479 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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3rd century BC

  • 206 BCEThe Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio secures Gades, thus making Roman control of Spain complete. With the effective withdrawal of the Carthaginians from Spain, Hispania becomes a Roman province.source

1st century BC

  • 65 BCEPompey the Great subjugates the kingdom of Iberia and makes Colchis a Roman province.source
  • 58 BCECyprus becomes a Roman province.source
  • 35 BCEIllyria becomes a Roman province. Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian conducts a rendezvous with the Roman fleet under Agrippa, which is engaged in clearing the Dalmatian coast of piracy.source
  • 25 BCEGalatia becomes a Roman province after the death of its king. The Roman troops stationed there are relocated to Egypt.source
  • 23 BCEThe Nubians, led by queen Kandake Amanirenas, take the initiative against the Roman Empire, and attack the Roman province of Egypt moving towards Elephantine.source
  • 15 BCEThe Raeti tribes of the Alps are subjugated by Tiberius and Nero Claudius Drusus and the new Roman province of Raetia is established with Chur (in modern-day Switzerland) as its capital. During the campaign, Roman triremes destroy the fleet of the Vindelici in the Battle of Lake Constance. Augsburg is founded as Augusta Vindelicorum; and Legio XXI Rapax is stationed at Regensburg in the new province.source

1st century

  • 15Varna (Odessus), on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, is annexed to the Roman province of Moesia.source
  • 17Cappadocia (Asia Minor) becomes a Roman province.source
  • 43Claudius annexes Lycia in Asia Minor, combining it with Pamphylia as a Roman province.source
  • 44Mauretania becomes a Roman province.source
  • 47Publius Ostorius Scapula replaces Aulus Plautius as governor of Britain. The south-east of the island is now a Roman province, while certain states on the south coast are ruled as a nominally independent client kingdom by Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus, whose seat is probably at Fishbourne near Chichester. Ostorius immediately faces incursions from unconquered areas, which he puts down.source

2nd century

  • 102Trajan divides Pannonia into two provinces, sometime between this year and 107.source
  • 106August 11 – The south-eastern part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia. The veterans of the legions are given land in the new province for their service in the Roman army.source
  • 128Emperor Hadrian visits the Roman province of North Africa, in order to inspect Legio III Augusta stationed at Lambaesis. For strategic reasons, the legionnaires are located in the Aurès Mountains.source
  • 199Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene.source

3rd century

  • 212Edessa in Mesopotamia becomes a Roman province.source
  • 260Postumus wins over all the Roman provinces west of the Alps, including Gaul, Britain and Hispania.source
  • 268Victorinus is declared emperor of the Gallic Empire by the legions at Augusta Treverorum (Trier), following the murders of his predecessors. He is recognized by the provinces of Gaul and Britain, but Hispania might have reunited with the Roman Empire.source

4th century

  • 363Emperor Jovian negotiates a disastrous peace with Persia, surrendering four of the five Roman provinces gained by Caesar Galerius in 298, and the cities Nisibis and Singara (Mesopotamia).source
  • 375Gratian, age 16, takes over the government at Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier), but ministers wishing to retain the loyalty of the Illyrian army fear a usurper. They proclaim Valentinian's 4-year-old son Valentinian II co-emperor with his mother, Justina, as regent. Gratian reserves for himself the administration of the Gallic provinces, and hands over Italy, Illyrium, Hispania and Africa to his stepmother, who makes Mediolanum (Milan) her residence.source

5th century

  • 411The Alans establish their rule in the Roman province of Lusitania (Portugal south of the Duero River and Spain).source
  • 455The city of Vindobona (Vienna) is struck by an epidemic that spreads through the Roman provinces. The disease is probably streptococcus or a form of scarlet fever with streptococcus pneumoniae (approximate date).source
  • 479King Theodoric the Great starts a 4-year campaign against the Byzantine Empire. The Ostrogoths ravage the Roman provinces (Moesia and Thrace), and threaten the capital of Constantinople itself.source

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