IMPERIUM ROMANUM

Provinces · The later eastern provinces

LE-36 Cappadocia Secunda

The later Balkan provincial landscape. Dacia south of the Danube, the two Epiri…
The later Balkan provincial landscape. Dacia south of the Danube, the two Epiri, Thessaly, Macedonia, Achaia, and the Thracian districts illustrate the replacement of large commands by smaller jurisdictions. The river network helps relate frontier districts to the Adriatic, Aegean, and imperial straits.

Tyana’s position near approaches towards the Taurus gave the province an orientation different from the Caesarean core. Agriculture, livestock, routes, towns, and estates supported a society whose practical connections crossed the new provincial border. Creating a separate governor changed civil administration without eliminating those relationships.

The division also affected ecclesiastical precedence and competition among bishops. Religious jurisdiction did not always follow political reorganization without dispute. Later frontier warfare increased the strategic importance of southern Anatolian movement. The province’s history must therefore combine its administrative creation with Tyana’s older urban role and the changing military geography around it.