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Province, 117 CE

Achaia

Senatorial province (proconsul)Capital: CorinthRoman since 27 BCE

Roman Greece — the old heartland of Classical civilization, ruled since 27 BCE from a city the Romans themselves had rebuilt: Corinth, razed by the Republic in 146 BCE and refounded as a colony a century later. Athens kept a special cultural prestige no governor's seat could match; Epirus in the northwest and the Aegean islands both fell under this same province's administration.

Organized as its own senatorial province in 27 BCE; Greece had already been under Roman control since Macedonia's conquest in 146 BCE.

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73 places on the map

Sources

  • Pausanias, Description of Greece
  • Cassius Dio, Roman History 51.4

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