Euphratensis
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| Provincia Augusta Euphratensis ἐπαρχία Εὑφρατησίας |
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| Province of the Roman Empire | |||||
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| Diocese of Orient circa 400, showing Euphratensis | |||||
| Capital | Cyrrus or Hierapolis Bambyce | ||||
| Historical era | Antiquity | ||||
| • | Established | c. 341 | |||
| • | Division of the empire by Theodosius I | 395 | |||
| • | Arab-Byzantine Wars | 7th Century | |||
| Today part of | |||||
Euphratensis (Latin for "Euphratean"; Greek: Εὑφρατησία, Euphratēsía), fully Augusta Euphratensis, was a Roman province in Greater Syria, part of the late Roman Diocese of the East.
History[edit]
Sometime between 330 and 350 (likely c. 341), the province of Euphratensis was created out of the territory of Syria Coele along the western bank of the Euphrates.[1] It included the territories of Commagene and Cyrrhestice. Its capital was Cyrrus[2] or perhaps Hierapolis Bambyce.[1]
Episcopal sees[edit]
Ancient episcopal sees of the Roman province of Syria Euphratensis Prima listed in the Annuario Pontificio as titular sees:[3]
- Barbalissus
- Cyrrhus, ?Archbishopric
- Doliche
- Europus (Dura-Europos)
- Germanicia
- Hierapolis in Syria (alias Hierapolis Euphratensis, Hierapolis Bambyce), the Metropolitan Archbishopric
- Neocaesarea in Syria
- Perrhe (Adıyaman)
- Samosata
- Sura
- Urima
- Zeugma in Syria
Ancient episcopal sees of the Roman province of Syria Euphratensis Secunda listed in the Annuario Pontificio as titular sees:[3]
- Agrippias (ruins of Saliliyé)
- Orisa (Tayibe)
- Sergiopolis, the Metropolitan Archbishopric
- Serigene (Isriyë)
- Zenobias (ruins of Halabiyé)
References[edit]
- ^ a b Kazhdan, Alexander (Ed.) (1991). Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press. p. 748. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.
- ^ Edmund Spenser Bouchier, Syria as a Roman Province, 1916, p. 155
- ^ a b Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013