LW-29 Valentia

Valentia’s creation or restoration commemorated renewed imperial authority. The central uncertainty concerns where it lay and how it related to the other late provinces. Proposed identifications range across different parts of Britain. Its consular governor indicates recognized institutional standing, but does not resolve the geographical problem.

The province’s short remaining imperial history belonged to a Britain experiencing military rebuilding followed by renewed political crisis. It should be included as a real administrative name without supplying a fictitious capital, exact frontier, or continuous earlier history. The uncertainty is geographical and institutional, not a reason to merge it automatically with a better-known British province.