Valeria in Italy · Imperium Romanum

The empire around 400 CE. The broad colours represent prefectural groupings, while… — The empire around 400 CE. The broad colours represent prefectural groupings, while regional names, major cities, and symbols for selected state industries show the larger administrative and logistical setting. These groupings contained many individual provinces; a region labelled on this map is not necessarily one province.

The province organized inland communities, valleys, and mountain routes within the suburbicarian sphere. Its precise territorial reconstruction is less straightforward than that of some better-known provinces. A city’s location in the Apennines does not alone establish its assignment to Valeria at every date.

Agriculture, livestock, local exchange, roads, and Christian bishoprics sustained regional society. Later wars and the division of Italy among competing powers altered government unevenly. The name requires explicit Italian qualification because the empire also contained a Danubian province called Valeria with a completely different military and territorial history.

LW-41 Valeria in Italy