IMPERIUM ROMANUM

Provinces · The later western provinces

LW-27 Maxima Caesariensis

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.

Its consular rank indicates a distinguished late provincial office. London’s commercial, administrative, and transport functions make its association plausible, but rank does not by itself establish every boundary or prove that the governor controlled all southern Britain. The province belonged to a diocesan system in which higher officials coordinated several civil jurisdictions.

Town life, coastal movement, estates, and the Thames corridor supplied a substantial economic setting. Political and military crises eventually disrupted the institutional support connecting it to the western empire. The name should not be confused with Flavia Caesariensis or with continental provinces bearing imperial honorifics.