LW-37 Tuscia et Umbria

The late province joined regions with deep and distinct pre-Roman histories that had long been incorporated into Italy. Urban councils, roads, farming, estates, and religious centres linked local communities to Rome and the wider peninsula. Its creation reflected Italy’s inclusion within ordinary provincial government rather than a new territorial conquest.

Christian bishoprics developed within many older towns. Gothic and Eastern Roman warfare, followed by Lombard expansion and the growth of papal influence, produced a fragmented later geography. Some routes and cities retained imperial connections, while others entered different political systems. The province’s institutional end therefore did not occur uniformly across all its communities.