Diocese of Asia

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Roman imperial administrative division late Roman administrative diocese

The Diocese of Asia was a late Roman administrative district that encompassed much of western Asia Minor, created during the empire’s reorganization to group several provinces under a single diocesan authority.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Asiana Diocese 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Roman imperial administrative division ⓘ
late Roman administrative diocese ⓘ
appliesToTerritory Asia Minor NERFINISHED ⓘ
western Asia Minor ⓘ
borderedBy Aegean Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ
Diocese of Pontus NERFINISHED ⓘ
Diocese of Thrace NERFINISHED ⓘ
Mediterranean Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ
createdAroundYear 314 ⓘ
createdDuringReignOf Diocletian NERFINISHED ⓘ
createdInCentury 4th century ⓘ
documentedInSource Notitia Dignitatum NERFINISHED ⓘ
existedInPoliticalEntity Byzantine Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
Eastern Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
followedAdministrativeModelOf Diocese of Thrace NERFINISHED ⓘ
Diocese of the East NERFINISHED ⓘ
followedAdministrativeSystem Diocletianic reforms NERFINISHED ⓘ
governedByOffice vicarius ⓘ
groupedAdministrativeUnits Roman provinces ⓘ
hadAdministrativeLevel intermediate between prefecture and province ⓘ
hadFiscalFunction yes ⓘ
hadJudicialFunction yes ⓘ
hadMilitaryFunction limited, mainly civil administration ⓘ
hadProvince Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ
Caria NERFINISHED ⓘ
Cilicia NERFINISHED ⓘ
Hellespontus NERFINISHED ⓘ
Insulae ⓘ
Lycia NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lydia NERFINISHED ⓘ
Pamphylia NERFINISHED ⓘ
Phrygia Pacatiana NERFINISHED ⓘ
Phrygia Salutaris NERFINISHED ⓘ
Pisidia NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCapital Ephesus NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedInPresentDay Turkey ⓘ
namedAfter province of Asia ⓘ
partOf Praetorian Prefecture of the East NERFINISHED ⓘ
Roman Empire ⓘ
precededBy provincial administration of Asia Minor without diocesan level ⓘ
religion Christianity (state religion in later period) NERFINISHED ⓘ
subordinateToOffice praetorian prefect of the East ⓘ
timePeriod Late Antiquity ⓘ
usedLanguage Greek ⓘ
Latin ⓘ
wasAbolishedGraduallyInCentury 7th century ⓘ
wasAffectedBy Byzantine themata reforms NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Eastern Roman provinces → includedProvince → Diocese of Asia ⓘ
this entity surface form: Asiana Diocese
Roman province of Asia → reorganizedInto → Diocese of Asia ⓘ