IMPERIUM ROMANUM

Provinces · The later eastern provinces

LE-34 Galatia Salutaris

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.

The province gave Pessinus and its surrounding territories a separate civil identity. The city’s long association with the Great Mother belonged to a religious history predating Roman annexation, while its late episcopal role formed part of a transformed Christian landscape. Roads and plateau resources connected it to neighbouring Anatolian provinces.

Agriculture, pastoral production, towns, and local exchange supported communities away from the maritime centres. Later changes in governmental combinations and military organization altered the province’s standing. Galatia Salutaris should not be confused with Phrygia Salutaris merely because both bore the same honorific element.