Dalmatia (Roman province)
Provincia Dalmatia | |||||||||
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Province of the Roman Empire | |||||||||
32 BC–481/482 AD | |||||||||
Province of Dalmatia within the Empire | |||||||||
Capital | Salona | ||||||||
Government | |||||||||
Governor | |||||||||
• 19–16 BC (first) | Publius Silius Nerva | ||||||||
• 480–481/2 (last) | Ovida | ||||||||
Historical era | Illyrian Wars | 220 BC–168 BC | |||||||
• Established | 32 BC | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 481/482 AD | ||||||||
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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.
Conquest
The region which ran along the coast of the Adriatic Sea and extended inland on the
Part of Illyricum
Due to Octavian having subdued the more inland region of Pannonia (along the mid-course of the River Danube), the Romans changed the name of the coastal area to Dalmatia. In 6–9 AD, there was a large scale rebellion in the province of Illyricum, the Bellum Batonianum (Batonian War).[7] Velleius Paterculus describes Gaius Vibius Postumus as the military commander of Dalmatia under Germanicus in 9 AD;[8] this is the earliest extant writing which indicates that the province of Illyricum comprised Dalmatia and Pannonia.
The province of Illyricum was eventually dissolved and replaced by two smaller provinces: Dalmatia (the southern area) and Pannonia (the northern and Danubian area). It is unclear when this happened. Kovác noted that an inscription on the base of a statue of Nero erected between 54 and 68 AD attests that it was erected by the veteran of a legion stationed in Pannonia and argues that this is the first epigraphic evidence that a separate Pannonia existed at least since the reign of Nero.[9][full citation needed] However, Šašel-Kos notes that an inscription attests a governor of Illyricum under the reign of Claudius (41–54 AD) and in a military diploma published in the late 1990s, dated July 61 AD, units of auxiliaries from the Pannonian part of the province were mentioned as being stationed in Illyricum.[10] Some other diplomas attest the same.[11] This was during the reign of Nero (54–68 AD). Therefore, Šašel-Kos supports the notion that the province was dissolved during the reign of Vespasian (69–79 AD).[12]
Administrative changes
In 337, when
Romanization
German historian Theodor Mommsen wrote (in his The Provinces of the Roman Empire) that coastal Dalmatia and its islands were fully romanized and Latin-speaking by the 4th century.[14]
The Croatian historian Aleksandar Stipčević writes that analysis of archaeological material from that period has shown that the process of romanization was rather selective. While urban centers, both coastal and inland, were almost completely romanized, the situation in the countryside was completely different. Despite the Illyrians being subject to a strong process of acculturation, they continued to speak their native language (Illyrian language), follow their own gods and traditions, and maintain their own social-political organization, which was adapted to Roman administration and political structure only in some necessities.[15]
Collapse
In 454
List of governors of Dalmatia
- Publius Silius, son of Publius: between 19 and 16 BC[19]
- Gaius Vibius Postumus: c.9 or 10 AD, first governor[20]
- Marcus Servilius, son of Gaius, probably before 14 AD[21]
- Publius Cornelius Dolabella: 14–20
- Lucius Volusius Saturninus: 20–37
- Lucius Arruntius Camillus Scribonianus: c. AD 41
- Gaius Calpetanus Rantius Sedatus: c. AD 48
- Aulus Ducenius Geminus: AD 67/68 or before
- Marcus Pompeius Silvanus Staberius Flavinus: 67/68—70[22]
- Lucius Plotius Pegasus: 70/71–72/73
- Lucius Funisulanus Vettonianus: 79/80–81/82
- Gaius Cilnius Proculus: between 87 and 97
- Quintus Pomponius Rufus: 92/93–94/95
- Macer: 98/99–99/100
- Gaius Minicius Fundanus: after 107, probably 108/109–111/112
- Publius Coelius Balbinus Vibullius Pius: after 137
- Marcus Aemilius Papus: 147—150[23]
- Titus Prifernius Paetus Rosianus Geminus: 153–156
- Sextus Aemilius Equester: 159–162
- Publius Julius Scapula Tertullus: 164–169
- Pollienus Auspex: c. 173–175
- Marcus Didius Iulianus: c. 175–177
- Gaius Vettius Sabinianus Julius Hospes: c. 177–178
- Gaius Arrius Antoninus: c. 178–179
- Lucius Aurelius Gallus: c. 179–182
- Lucius Junius Rufinus Proculianus: c. 182–184[24]
- Marcus Cassius Apronianus: after 185
- Marcus Nummius Umbrius Primus Senecio Albinus: 212–214
- Gaius Avitus Alexianus: c. 214–216
- Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus: c. 223–225
- Gaius Fulvius Maximus: between 222 and 235
- Lucius Domitius Gallicanus Papinianus: c. 238
Independent rulers in the 5th century
- Marcellinus: 454–468
- Julius Nepos: 468–480
- Ovida: 480–481/482
Notes
- ^ Livy, The History of Rome, 45.26.11-15
- ^ Appian, The Foreign Wars, The Illyrian Wars, 10.18-27
- ^ Cassius Dio, Roman History, 48.11,, 49.37-38
- ^ Cassius Dio, Roman History, 54. 24.3, 28.1-2 31.2-3, 36.2 3, 55.2.4
- ^ Velleius Paterculus, Compendium of Roman History, 2.96.2‑3
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 2.25-26, 28
- ^ Cassius Dio, Roman History, 55.29-32. 34.4
- ^ Velleius Paterculus, Compendium of Roman History, 2.116.3
- ^ [73][74]
- ^ Dusanic, S., An Early Diploma Milirare, Starinar (1998) 51-62 = AE 1998, 1056 = M
- ^ Holder R., P Roman Military Diplomas IV (2003), no. 202
- ^ Šašel-Kos, Pannonia or Lower Illyricum? Tyche Beitrage zur Alten Geschichte, Paryrologie und Epigraphik, Band 25.2010, pp. 123-130
- ^ Barnes, Constantine: Dynastyr, Religion and Power in the Later Roman Empire, p. 160, 2011
- ISBN 978-1-59333-025-5.
- ^ A. Stipčević, Iliri, Školska knjiga Zagreb, 1974, page 70
- ^ Damascius, Epitome Photiana, 91, fragments 158
- ^ Bury, J. B., History of the Later Roman Empire, p. 408.
- ^ Burns, T., (1984). A History of the Ostrogoths (1984), p. 44
- ^ CIL III, 2973, CIL III, 10017
- ISBN 978-0-19-814731-2.
- ISBN 978-0-521-19419-8.
- ^ Unless otherwise stated, the names of the proconsular governors from 69 to 139 are taken from Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), pp. 281-362; 13 (1983), pp. 147-237
- ^ Unless otherwise stated, the names of the proconsular governors from 147 to 182 are taken from Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), pp. 224-227
- ^ Unless otherwise stated, the names of the proconsular governors from 182 to 235 are taken from Paul Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989), pp. 240f
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