IMPERIUM ROMANUM

Provinces · The later eastern provinces

LE-28 Pisidia

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.

Pisidia combined uplands, productive basins, towns, routes, and communities with varied pre-Roman histories. Roman colonies and roads had already connected the region strongly to imperial administration. The separate province gave these districts their own civil framework rather than leaving them inside the enlarged early imperial Galatia.

Farming, livestock, local manufacture, and regional trade supported civic and rural society. Christian institutions became important in cities and surrounding districts. The province’s later history was shaped by Anatolian communications and warfare, while older local identities survived within changing administrative structures. Pisidian ethnicity and provincial jurisdiction were not identical categories.