IMPERIUM ROMANUM

Provinces · The later western provinces

LW-55 Byzacena

The empire around 400 CE. The broad colours represent prefectural groupings, while…
The empire around 400 CE. The broad colours represent prefectural groupings, while regional names, major cities, and symbols for selected state industries show the larger administrative and logistical setting. These groupings contained many individual provinces; a region labelled on this map is not necessarily one province.

Byzacena contained a dense network of towns, farms, estates, presses, and routes linking productive countryside with Mediterranean ports. Olive oil, cereals, pottery, and other activities supported regional wealth. Thysdrus, Sufetula, and numerous smaller centres possessed their own urban and Christian histories.

Vandal rule and Eastern Roman recovery changed government, property relationships, religious politics, and military obligations. The interior also faced the influence and campaigns of local North African powers. Byzacena’s later history therefore combines agricultural resilience, urban change, and repeated conflict, rather than the uninterrupted survival of a prosperous imperial breadbasket.