IMPERIUM ROMANUM

Provinces · The later western provinces

LW-46 Corsica

Corsica’s mountain terrain and limited plains supported a smaller urban framework than Sardinia. Coastal settlements connected it with Italy and neighbouring islands, while pastoral activity, woodland resources, cultivation, and local exchange sustained interior communities. Provincial government depended on practical access through a difficult landscape.

Christian communities and bishops formed part of its late institutional world. Vandal rule and Eastern Roman recovery changed its wider political allegiance. A separate provincial identity did not remove the constraints of terrain or make every settlement equally subject to direct official intervention. Corsica’s later history therefore deserves treatment apart from the larger neighbouring island with which it had once shared a governor.

The Alpine and upper Adriatic approaches to the Danubian provinces, showing rivers and regional divisions
From the Alpine passes to the Pannonian plain. Northern Italy, Raetia, Noricum, Dalmatia, and the Pannonian districts were connected through mountain corridors, river valleys, and the upper Adriatic. The labels combine terminology from successive administrative stages; the individual dossiers distinguish those stages.