Islands (Roman province)
The Province of the Islands (
Latin: Provincia Insularum; Greek: ἐπαρχία νήσων, romanized: eparchia nēsōn) was a Late Roman province consisting of most of the islands in the Aegean, now part of Greece. It was almost succeeded by later Byzantine theme of Aegean Sea. Meanwhile, It should not be confused with the Roman province of Hispania Balearica, which consists of the (now Spanish) Balearic Islands
.
History
In Late Antiquity, the province was part of the Diocese of Asia of the Praetorian prefecture of the East, until subordinated to the quaestura exercitus by Emperor Justinian I.
Thera
.
Rhodes' homonymous capital was also the see of the
Dodekanesos Nisyrus
(Nisyros island).
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.
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