IMPERIUM ROMANUM

Provinces · The later western provinces

LW-59 Mauretania Sitifensis

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.

Sitifensis gave a distinct governor to an inland and mountain-adjacent region connected to productive districts and coastal routes. Sitifis’s earlier colonial development supplied an established urban centre for the new jurisdiction. Agriculture, regional exchange, roads, and Christian communities sustained provincial society.

Later political conditions involved imperial officials, Vandal power, and local North African rulers. The province’s formal existence did not guarantee direct control of all its uplands or hinterlands. Eastern Roman recovery again operated unevenly. Sitifensis deserves separate treatment because its administrative creation and later political geography differed from those of both Caesarea and Numidia.