Lucania et Bruttii · Imperium Romanum

The empire around 400 CE. The broad colours represent prefectural groupings, while… — The empire around 400 CE. The broad colours represent prefectural groupings, while regional names, major cities, and symbols for selected state industries show the larger administrative and logistical setting. These groupings contained many individual provinces; a region labelled on this map is not necessarily one province.

The late province combined regions with distinct Greek, Italic, and Roman inheritances. Agriculture, pastoral activity, woodland, local crafts, and coastal exchange sustained varied communities. Its geography made routes and harbours essential to communication between interior settlements and the wider Mediterranean.

Christian institutions developed alongside older urban and rural structures. Gothic and Eastern Roman competition and later Lombard pressure altered sovereignty without eliminating every town or regional network. The province’s relationship to Sicily and the southern seas gave it enduring strategic importance. Its ancient regional names should not be replaced mechanically by modern administrative boundaries.

LW-43 Lucania et Bruttii