IMPERIUM ROMANUM

Provinces · The later eastern provinces

LE-31 Honorias

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’s valleys and routes connected inland Anatolia with the Black Sea and western approaches. Farming, woodland resources, local production, and towns supported a regional economy distinct from Nicomedia’s immediate maritime setting. Its title commemorated the late imperial political order rather than an ancient independent kingdom.

Christian bishops and civic institutions organized communities within the new jurisdiction. Later warfare and administrative change affected its wider communications, while settlement and regional connections continued. Honorias deserves a separate identity because its formation narrowed neighbouring jurisdictions and created a new centre of civil administration at Claudiopolis.