IMPERIUM ROMANUM

Provinces · The later western provinces

LW-53 Noricum Mediterraneum

The interior province connected Alpine valleys, productive districts, and routes towards Italy and the Danube. Its economy included farming, livestock, resources, local manufacture, and transport. Different towns rose or declined as security and communications changed.

Christian bishoprics and local elites acquired growing importance while the old imperial structure weakened. The region’s later political affiliations differed from those of the exposed river frontier, demonstrating that the two Norican provinces should not share one undifferentiated end-date. Mountain routes and surviving communities carried aspects of Roman institutional and religious life into a changing post-imperial landscape.

The central North African coastal provinces and inland river systems
The central African coast and its hinterlands. Carthage, Numidia, Byzacena, and Tripolitania occupy contrasting coastal, upland, and arid landscapes. The schematic map emphasizes regional relationships; it does not separately display every late Mauretanian subdivision or every change in the inland frontier.