Mesopotamia was the name of a Roman province, initially a short-lived creation of the Roman Emperor Trajan in 116–117 and then re-established by Emperor Septimius Severus in c. 198. Control of the province was subsequently fought over between the Roman and the Sassanid empires until the Muslim conquests of the 7th century.

Galatia (/ ɡ ə ˈ l eɪ ʃ ə /) was the name of a province of the Roman Empire in Anatolia (modern central Turkey).It was established by the first emperor, Augustus (sole rule 30 BC – 14 AD), in 25 BC, covering most of formerly independent Celtic Galatia, with its capital at Ancyra. Under the Tetrarchy reforms of Diocletian, its northern and southern parts were split to form the southern ...

Several theories address the issue of the origin of the Romanians.The Romanian language descends from the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken in the Roman provinces north of the "Jireček Line" (a proposed notional line separating the predominantly Latin-speaking territories from the Greek-speaking lands in Southeastern Europe) in Late Antiquity.The theory of Daco-Roman continuity …

The economy of East Asia comprises 1.6 billion people (20.5% of the world population) living in 6 different countries and regions.It is home to some of the most economically dynamic places in the world, being the site of some of the world's longest modern economic booms, including the Japanese economic miracle (1950–1990), Miracle on the Han River (1961–1996) in South …

An autonomous administrative division (also referred to as an autonomous area, entity, unit, region, subdivision, or territory) is a subnational administrative division or internal territory of a sovereign state that has a degree of autonomy—self-governance—under the national government. Autonomous areas are distinct from the constituent units of a federation (e.g. a state, or …

Caesarea Maritima (/ ˌ s ɛ s ə ˈ r iː ə m ə ˈ r ɪ t ɪ m ə /; Greek: Παράλιος Καισάρεια Parálios Kaisáreia), formerly Strato's Tower, also known as Caesarea Palestinae, was an ancient city in the Sharon plain on the coast of the Mediterranean, now in ruins and included in an Israeli national park.. The city and harbour were built under Herod the Great during c. 22 ...

This is a partial list of governors of Roman Britain from 43 to 409. As the unified province "Britannia", Roman Britain was a consular province, meaning that its governors had to first serve as a consul in Rome before they could govern it. While this rank could be obtained either as a suffect or ordinarius, a number of governors were consules ordinarii, and also appear in the …

Kavala (Greek: Καβάλα, Kavála) is a city in northern Greece, the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala regional unit.. It is situated on the Bay of Kavala, across from the island of Thasos and on the Egnatia motorway, a one-and-a-half-hour drive to Thessaloniki (160 kilometres (99 miles) west) and a forty-minute drive to Drama (37 km (23 miles) north) …

Etymology. The name Judea is a Greek and Roman adaptation of the name "Judah", which originally encompassed the territory of the Israelite tribe of that name and later of the ancient Kingdom of Judah. Nimrud Tablet K.3751, dated c. 733 BCE, is the earliest known record of the name Judah (written in Assyrian cuneiform as Yaudaya or KUR.ia-ú-da-a-a).. Judea was …

Moesia (/ ˈ m iː ʃ ə,-s i ə,-ʒ ə /; Latin: Moesia; Greek: Μοισία, romanized: Moisía) was an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans south of the Danube River, which included most of the territory of modern-day Serbia, Kosovo, the north-eastern parts of Albania and the northern parts of North Macedonia (Moesia Superior), the whole of Northern Bulgaria ...