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 .
4-920: 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 . Rhodes was the capital of the province, whose governor had the modest rank of praeses ( hegemon in Greek). It encompassed many Aegean islands . According to the Synecdemus of Hierocles, the province included twenty cities: Rhodes , Amorgos , Andros , Astypalaia , Chios , Ios , Kos , Melos , Methymna , Mytilene , Naxos , Paros , Petelos , Proselene , Samos , Siphnos , Tenedos , Tenos and Thera . Rhodes' homonymous capital
8-465: The Byzantine Empire is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Diocese of Asia The Diocese of Asia ( Latin : Dioecesis Asiana , Greek : Διοίκησις Ἀσίας/Άσιανῆς ) was a diocese of the later Roman Empire , incorporating the provinces of western Asia Minor and the islands of the eastern Aegean Sea . The diocese was established after the reforms of Diocletian ,
12-603: Was also the see of the metropolitan archbishopric of the ecclesiastical province covering the Cyclades , with eleven suffragan sees including Astypalaia , Ios and in the Dodekanesos Nisyrus (Nisyros island). This article about an island or other related place in the Ancient Aegean Sea is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a populated place in
16-463: Was subordinate to the Praetorian prefecture of the East , and was abolished during the reforms of Justinian I in 535. It was one of the most populous and wealthy dioceses of the Empire, and included 11 provinces: Asia , Hellespontus , Pamphylia , Caria , Lydia , Lycia , Lycaonia , Pisidia , Phrygia Pacatiana , Phrygia Salutaria and Insulae . This Ancient Rome –related article
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