In which modern country is the ancient Roman province of Asia?
"Europa (Roman province) Europa was a Roman province within the Diocese of Thrace. Established by Roman Emperor Diocletian (284-305), the province largely corresponds to what is modern day European Turkey. The province's capital was Perinthus (later known as Heraclea; modern Marmara Ereğlisi). Bordering only the provinces of Rhodope and Haemimontus to the west and northwest, Europa was a peninsula and was surrounded by water on three sides: the Black Sea to the northeast, the Bosphorus to the east, and the Sea of Marmara and Aegean Sea to the south and southeast. The largest city along the Black Sea was Salmydessus."
"the point where they were indistinguishable from common villages by the time of the Persian and Arab invasions of the 7th century. On the other hand, leading cities from the early empire including Ephesus, Sardis, and Aphrodisias retained much of their former glory and came to serve as the new provincial capitals. Asia remained a center of Roman and Hellenistic culture in the east for centuries. The territory remained part of the Byzantine Empire until the end of the 13th century. Asia (Roman province) The Roman province of Asia or Asiana (), in Byzantine times called Phrygia, was an administrative"
"Alexandria Arachosia Alexandria in Arachosia () was a city in ancient times that is now called Kandahar in Afghanistan. It was one of more than seventy cities founded or renamed by Alexander the Great. Arachosia is the Greek name of an ancient province of the Achaemenid, Seleucid and Parthian empires. The province of ""Arachosia"" was centred around the Argandab valley in Kandahar, Afghanistan. It did not reach the Hindu Kush, but it apparently extended east as far as the Indus river, although its exact extents are not yet clear. After the conquests of Alexander the Great, Arachosia was ruled by"
"the Euphrates, together with his daughter who had been captured, preferring to live with him in peace and friendship. The fourth-century historians Eutropius and Festus assume that the supposed Roman province of Assyria was situated east of the Tigris and so outside of Mesopotamia. Theodore Mommsen wrote that it was located north of the Roman Mesopotamia province, in Upper Mesopotamia, stretching into western Persia (in an area called Media Atropatene) in what is now northwestern Iran. But some modern scholars argue that the ""Assyria Provincia"" was located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, in present-day central Iraq, a location that"
"Aurusuliana Aurusuliana was a Roman Era city located in what was the Roman Province of Byzacena (Roman North Africa) and today modern Tunisia. The exact site of the city remains unknown and a source of some controversy. It is now generally considered to have been in Tunisia, in the territory of Henchir-Guennara, but Bingham thought it in Tripoliana while others thought Numidia. The city was also the seat of an ancient Christian Bishopric. and one Bishop Habettus is known from antiquity. The diocese survives today as a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church and the current bishop is Adam"
"Ariana Ariana, the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek ""Ar(e)ianē"" (inhabitants: """"; ""Ar(e)ianoi""), was a general geographical term used by some Greek and Roman authors of the ancient period for a district of wide extent between Central Asia and the Indus River, comprising the eastern provinces of the Achaemenid Empire that covered the whole of modern-day Afghanistan, as well as the easternmost part of Iran and up to the Indus River in Pakistan (former Northern India). At various times, various parts of the region were governed by the Persians (the Achaemenids from 550 to 330 BC, the Sasanians from 275"
"Lusitania Lusitania (; ; ) or Hispania Lusitana was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and part of western Spain (the present autonomous community of Extremadura and a part of the province of Salamanca) lie. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people (an Indo-European people). Its capital was ""Emerita Augusta"" (currently Mérida, Spain), and it was initially part of the Roman Republic province of Hispania Ulterior, before becoming a province of its own in the Roman Empire. Romans first came to the territory around the mid-2nd century BC. A war"
"Carmania (region) Carmania (, ""Karmanía"", Old Persian: ""Karmanâ"", Middle Persian: ""Kirmān"") is a historical region that approximately corresponds to the modern province of Kerman and was a province of the Achaemenid, Seleucid, Arsacid, and Sasanian Empire. The region bordered Persia in the west, Gedrosia in the south-east, Parthia in the north (later known as Abarshahr), and Aria to the north-east. Carmania was considered part of Ariana. In the Early Bronze Age, late third millennium BC, it is postulated that a civilisation known as Jiroft civilisation developed and flourished in the region of Carmania. However, little is known of the history"
"Byzacena Byzacena was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis. 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"
"Dalmatia (Roman province) Dalmatia was a Roman province. Its name is derived from the name of an Illyrian tribe called the Dalmatae, which lived in the central area of the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. It encompassed the northern part of present-day Albania, much of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo and Serbia, thus covering an area significantly larger than the current Croatian region of Dalmatia. Originally this region was called Illyria (in Greek) or Illyricum (in Latin). The province of Illyricum was dissolved and replaced by two separate provinces: Dalmatia and Pannonia. The region which run along the"
"southeastern Poland, western Ukraine, western Romania, northern Serbia (Vojvodina), the tip of northeast Croatia (Slavonia), northeastern Slovenia, and eastern Austria. The name ""Pannonian"" comes from Pannonia, a province of the Roman Empire. Only the western part of the territory (the so-called Transdanubia) of modern Hungary formed part of the ancient Roman Province of Pannonia; this comprises less than 29% of modern Hungary, therefore Hungarian geographers avoid the terms ""Pannonian Basin"" and ""Pannonian Plain"". In English-language, the terms ""Pannonian Basin"" and ""Carpathian Basin"" are used synonymously. The name ""Pannonian"" is taken from that of Pannonia, a province of the Roman Empire."
"Achaea (Roman province) Achaea or Achaia (, ""Akhaia""; ), was a province of the Roman Empire, consisting of the Peloponnese, eastern Central Greece, and parts of Thessaly. In the north, it bordered on the provinces of Epirus vetus and Macedonia. The region was annexed by the Roman Republic in 146 BC following the sack of Corinth by the Roman general Lucius Mummius, who was awarded the cognomen """"Achaicus"""" (""conqueror of Achaea""). It became part of the Roman province of Macedonia, which included the whole of mainland Greece. Achaea was a senatorial province, thus free from military men and legions, and"
"Bałabuch of Poland. Aurusuliana Aurusuliana was a Roman Era city located in what was the Roman Province of Byzacena (Roman North Africa) and today modern Tunisia. The exact site of the city remains unknown and a source of some controversy. It is now generally considered to have been in Tunisia, in the territory of Henchir-Guennara, but Bingham thought it in Tripoliana while others thought Numidia. The city was also the seat of an ancient Christian Bishopric. and one Bishop Habettus is known from antiquity. The diocese survives today as a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church and the current"
"Moesia Moesia (; Latin: ""Moesia""; , ""Moisía"") was an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans south of the Danube River. It included most of the territory of modern-day Central Serbia, Kosovo and the northern parts of the modern Republic of Macedonia (Moesia Superior), Northern Bulgaria and Romanian Dobrudja (Moesia Inferior). In ancient geographical sources, Moesia was bounded to the south by the Haemus (Balkans) and Scardus (Šar) mountains, to the west by the Drinus (Drina) river, on the north by the Donaris (Danube) and on the east by the Euxine (Black Sea). The region was inhabited"
"Mauretania Caesariensis Mauretania Caesariensis (Latin for ""Caesarian Mauretania"") was a Roman province located in what is now Algeria in the Maghreb. The full name refers to its capital Caesarea Mauretaniae (Caesarea Mauritaniae) (modern Cherchell), in order to distinguish it from neighboring Mauretania Tingitana, which was ruled from Tingis (now Tangiers in Morocco). In the middle of 1st century AD, Roman emperor Claudius divided the westernmost Roman province in Africa, named Mauretania (land of the Mauri people, hence the word Moors), into Mauretania Caesariensis (named after its capital, one of many cities simply named Caesarea after the imperial cognomen that had"
"to Mesopotamia, and from the Caspian to the Mediterranean. Tigranes invaded as far southeast as the Parthian capital of Ecbatana, located in modern-day western Iran. In 27 BC, the Roman Empire conquered Cilicia and transformed it into one of its eastern provinces. After the 395 AD partition of the Roman Empire into halves, Cilicia became incorporated into the Eastern Roman Empire, also called the Byzantine Empire. In the sixth century AD, Armenian families relocated to Byzantine territories. Many served in the Byzantine army as soldiers or as generals, and rose to prominent imperial positions. Cilicia fell to Arab invasions in"
"1997. Temuniana Temuniana was a Roman town of Roman North Africa which existed during the Vandal Kingdom, Byzantine Empire and Roman Empire. The Roman town of Temuniana has been tentatively identified with ruins at Henchir-Temounia, in Tunisia., in Tunisia. These ruins include many subterranean cisterns, There are also remains of pipes and dams. Temuniana was also the seat of an ancient Catholic diocese There are three bishops of antiquity known from the town: Today the bishopric survives as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. The current bishop is Robert Anthony Brucato who replaced Peter Joseph Connors of Ballarat"
"of the Roman Empire is today conventionally referred to as Byzantine, named after the original name of the city that Constantine rebuilt into the new capital of Constantinople. Roman province In Ancient Rome, a province (Latin: ""provincia"", pl. ""provinciae"") was the basic and, until the Tetrarchy (from 293 AD), the largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside Italy. The word ""province"" in Modern English has its origins in the Latin term used by the Romans. Provinces were generally governed by politicians of senatorial rank, usually former consuls or former praetors. A later exception was the province"
"of the strait. Lusitania Lusitania (; ; ) or Hispania Lusitana was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and part of western Spain (the present autonomous community of Extremadura and a part of the province of Salamanca) lie. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people (an Indo-European people). Its capital was ""Emerita Augusta"" (currently Mérida, Spain), and it was initially part of the Roman Republic province of Hispania Ulterior, before becoming a province of its own in the Roman Empire. Romans first came to the territory around the mid-2nd century"
"consisted of what is today Northern and Central Greece, much of the geographical area of the present-day Republic of Macedonia and southeast Albania. Simply put, the Romans created a much larger administrative area under that name than the original ancient Macedon. In late Roman times, the provincial boundaries were reorganized to form the Diocese of Macedonia, consisting of most of modern mainland Greece right across the Aegean to include Crete, southern Albania, parts of south-west Bulgaria and southern Republic of Macedonia. In the Byzantine Empire, a province under the name of Macedonia was carved out of the original Theme of"
"Numidia (Roman province) Numidia was a Roman province on the North African coast, comprising roughly the territory of northeast Algeria. Eastern Numidia was annexed in 46 BC to create a new Roman province, Africa Nova. Western Numidia was also annexed after the death of its last king, Arabio, in 40 BC, and the two provinces were united with Tripolitana by Emperor Augustus, to create Africa Proconsularis. In AD 40, the western portion of Africa Proconsularis, including its legionary garrison, was placed under an imperial ""legatus"", and in effect became a separate province of Numidia, though the ""legatus"" of Numidia remained"
"Egypt (Roman province) The Roman province of Egypt (, ; ""Aigyptos"" ) was established in 30 BC after Octavian (the future Roman emperor Augustus) defeated his rival Mark Antony, deposed Pharaoh Cleopatra, and annexed the Ptolemaic Kingdom to the Roman Empire. The province encompassed most of modern-day Egypt except for the Sinai Peninsula (which would later be conquered by Trajan). Aegyptus was bordered by the provinces of Crete and Cyrenaica to the west and Judea (later Arabia Petraea) to the East. The province came to serve as a major producer of grain for the empire and had a highly developed"
"Bria, Phrygia Bria is a former Ancient city and bishopric in Asia Minor, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see. Its ruins site is at the modern Acemlar, near Bursa in Anatolia (Asian Turkey). Bria was important enough in the late Roman province of Phrygia Pacatiana Prima to become a suffragan of Laodicea in Phrygia (Laodicea on the Lycus), the Metropolitan Archbishopric, in the sway of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The see isn't mentioned by Michel Lequien in his ""Oriens Christianus"". Its only historically documented Suffragan Bishop was Macedonius, parttaking in the council of Constantinople called in 536 by Patriarch"
"It later alternated between being a Roman province and being a Roman client state. The polity was located on the eastern border of modern Algeria, bordered by the Roman province of Mauretania (in modern Algeria and Morocco) to the west, the Roman province of Africa (modern Tunisia) to the east, the Mediterranean to the north, and the Sahara Desert to the south. Its people were the Numidians. The name ""Numidia"" was first applied by Polybius and other historians during the third century BC to indicate the territory west of Carthage, including the entire north of Algeria as far as the"
"monumental portico, with a large temple in the middle, which was accessed through the Arch of Trajan. Edifices included: Roman Provincial Forum (Mérida) The Roman Provincial Forum is an archaeological area in Mérida, Spain, built in the 1st century AD. It was a public area of the Roman city of ""Emerita Augusta"", founded in 25 BC. The title of ""provincial"" came from the city's role as the capital of the province of Lusitania. Together with the Roman Forum and other Roman edifices in the city, it was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1993. The temple received a"
"Latium Latium (; ) is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire. Latium was originally a small triangle of fertile, volcanic soil on which resided the tribe of the Latins or Latians. It was located on the left bank (east and south) of the River Tiber, extending northward to the River Anio (a left-bank tributary of the Tiber) and southeastward to the Pomptina Palus (Pontine Marshes, now the Pontine Fields) as far south as the Circeian promontory. The right bank of the"
"Province of Rome The Province of Rome () was one of the five provinces of Lazio, Italy. In 2015 it became the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. The Province of Rome was the most populous of Italy, and was essentially coterminous with the Rome metropolitan area. Rome was the provincial capital. The Province of Rome existed from 1870 to 31 December 2014. On 1 January 2015, it was replaced with a new administrative area, the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. The province of Rome was established in 1870 after the Capture of Rome by the newly formed Kingdom of Italy"
"Roman province In Ancient Rome, a province (Latin: ""provincia"", pl. ""provinciae"") was the basic and, until the Tetrarchy (from 293 AD), the largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside Italy. The word ""province"" in Modern English has its origins in the Latin term used by the Romans. Provinces were generally governed by politicians of senatorial rank, usually former consuls or former praetors. A later exception was the province of Egypt, incorporated by Augustus after the death of Cleopatra; it was ruled by a governor of only equestrian rank, perhaps as a discouragement to senatorial ambition. This"
"Province of Asia, which covered a large part of western Anatolia. Kaunos was near the edge of this province and was assigned to Lycia. In 88 BC Mithridates invaded the province, trying to curb further expansion by the Romans. The Kaunians teamed up with him and killed all the Roman inhabitants of their city. After the peace of 85 BC they were punished for this action by the Romans, who again put Kaunos under Rhodian administration. During Roman rule Kaunos became a prospering sea port. The amphitheater of the city was enlarged and Roman baths and a palaestra were built."
"Gallaecia Gallaecia or Callaecia, also known as Hispania Gallaecia, was the name of a Roman province in the north-west of Hispania, approximately present-day Galicia, northern Portugal, Asturias and Leon and the later Suebic Kingdom of Gallaecia. The Roman cities included the port Cale (Porto), the governing centers Bracara Augusta (Braga), Lucus Augusti (Lugo) and Asturica Augusta (Astorga) and their administrative areas Conventus bracarensis, Conventus lucensis and Conventus asturicensis. The Romans gave the name ""Gallaecia"" to the northwest part of the Iberian peninsula after the tribes of the area, the Gallaeci or Gallaecians. The Gallaic Celts make their entry in written"
"Romagna Romagna (Romagnol: ""Rumâgna"") is an Italian historical region that approximately corresponds to the south-eastern portion of present-day Emilia-Romagna, North Italy. Traditionally, it is limited by the Apennines to the south-west, the Adriatic to the east, and the rivers Reno and Sillaro to the north and west. The region's major cities include Cesena, Faenza, Forlì, Imola, Ravenna, Rimini and City of San Marino (San Marino is a landlocked state inside the Romagna historical region). The region has been recently formally expanded with the transfer of seven comuni (Casteldelci, Maiolo, Novafeltria, Pennabilli, San Leo, Sant'Agata Feltria, Talamello) from the Marche region,"
"Romani people The Romani (also spelled Romany , ), colloquially known as Gypsies or Roma, are an Indo-Aryan, traditionally itinerant ethnic group living mostly in Europe and the Americas and originating from the northern Indian subcontinent, from the Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab regions of modern-day India. Genetic findings appear to confirm that the Romani ""came from a single group that left northwestern India about 1,500 years ago."" Genetic research published in the ""European Journal of Human Genetics"" ""revealed that over 70% of males belong to a single lineage that appears unique to the Roma."" They are a dispersed people, but their"
"part, which became the new province of Latina. Province of Rome The Province of Rome () was one of the five provinces of Lazio, Italy. In 2015 it became the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. The Province of Rome was the most populous of Italy, and was essentially coterminous with the Rome metropolitan area. Rome was the provincial capital. The Province of Rome existed from 1870 to 31 December 2014. On 1 January 2015, it was replaced with a new administrative area, the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. The province of Rome was established in 1870 after the Capture of"