The Roman provinces (Latin: provincia, pl. provinciae) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire.Each province was ruled by a Roman appointed as governor.. For centuries it was the largest administrative unit of the foreign possessions of ancient Rome.

The Roman province of Asia or Asiana (Greek: Ἀσία or Ἀσιανή), in Byzantine times called Phrygia (Greek: Φρυγία), was an administrative unit added to the late Republic.It was a Senatorial province governed by a proconsul.The arrangement was unchanged in …