IMPERIUM ROMANUM

Provinces · The later eastern provinces

LE-24 Phrygia Salutaris

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 connected interior agricultural and pastoral landscapes with roads across Anatolia. Towns, quarries in the wider region, local markets, and transport supported its economy. Synnada’s role as a civil and ecclesiastical centre gave the province an institutional focus distinct from Laodicea’s western valley setting.

Religious life included long-standing regional traditions and expanding Christian communities. Provincial administration relied on towns and rural obligations within a landscape less directly maritime than coastal Asia. Later eastern wars and administrative reorganization affected its wider communications. The name Salutaris is an imperial-period provincial designation, not a generic label for every inland Phrygian district at all dates.