Augustamnica
| Provincia Augustamnica ἐπαρχία Αὐγουσταμνικῆς | |||||||||
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Arab-Byzantine Wars | 641 | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  Egypt | ||||||||
Augustamnica (
Some ancient episcopal sees of the province are included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[2]
Augustamnica
The province was instituted in
Augustamnica was the only Egyptian province under a corrector, a lower ranking governor.
Around 381 the provinces of Egypt become a diocese in their own, and so Augustamnica become part of the Diocese of Egypt. Between 386 and the end of the 4th century the new province of Arcadia Aegypti, named after Emperor Arcadius, was created with territory from Augustamnica, the Heptanomia;[4] Augustamnica's capital was moved to Pelusium.
From the military point of view, the province was under the Comes limitis Aegypti. According to the
- Ala secunda Ulpia Afrorum at Thaubasteos
- Ala secunda Aegyptiorum at Tacasiria,
- Cohors prima sagittariorum at Naithu
- Cohors prima Augusta Pannoniorum at Tohu,
- Cohors prima Epireorum at Castra Iudaeorum
- Cohors quarta Iuthungorum at Affroditus
- Cohors secunda Ituraeorum at Aiy
- Cohors secunda Thracum at Muson
- Cohors quarta Numidarum at Narmunthi
Augustamnica I and II
Before 539, Augustamnica was divided into two provinces: Augustamnica Prima (First - North) and Augustamnica Secunda (Second - South).[4]
Augustamnica Prima had
Leontopolis was the capital of Augustamnica Secunda.
Episcopal sees
Ancient episcopal sees of Augustamnica I listed in the Annuario Pontificio as titular sees:[2]
- Aphnaeum (ruins of Tell-Defenneh?)
- Casius
- Damiata
- Gera
- Hephaestus
- Ostracine
- Panephysis (near Lake Menzaleh)
- Pelusium, the Metropolitan Archbishopric
- Phacusa
- Rhinocorura (Arish)
- Shata
- Sela (near El Qantara)
- Sethroë (between San-El-Hagar and Tell-Farama)
- Tamiathis
- Tanis
- Thennesus
- Thmuis
Ancient episcopal sees of Augustamnica II listed in the Annuario Pontificio as titular sees:[2]
- Arabia (Uadi-Tumilat)
- Athribis
- Babylon
- Bubastis
- Clysma
- Heliopolis in Augustamnica
- Leontopolis in Augustamnica, the Metropolitan archbishopric
- Pharbaetus
- Phelbes
Notes
- ^ Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, p. 102
- ^ ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
- ISBN 0-520-20531-6, p. 79.
- ^ a b c Keenan, p. 613.
- ^ Notitia Dignitatum In partibus Orientis, XXVIII.
- ^ Georgius Cyprius, 685-700; Hierocles, Synecdemos 726:3-727:6.
References
- Keenan, James K. (2000). "Egypt". In Cameron, Averil; Ward-Perkins, Bryan; Whitby, Michael (eds.). The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume XIV - Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, A.D. 425–600. Cambridge University Press. pp. 612–637. ISBN 978-0-521-32591-2.