IMPERIUM ROMANUM

Provinces · The later eastern provinces

LE-33 Galatia

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.

Ancyra remained an important administrative, religious, and communications centre after the removal of southern and western districts. Plateau farming, livestock, roads, and local markets sustained provincial communities. The smaller jurisdiction’s name retained the Galatian inheritance without including every territory once governed as Roman Galatia.

Christian institutions and imperial travel linked the city to wider Anatolian and eastern affairs. Later wars and military-administrative reorganization changed its superior framework. The persistence of local linguistic and cultural traditions alongside Greek public life illustrates why provincial identity and complete cultural assimilation should not be treated as the same historical process.