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Province, 117 CE

Africa Proconsularis

Senatorial province (proconsul)Capital: CarthageRoman since 146 BCE

The grandest senatorial governorship left in the empire by 117 — its proconsul outranked every other, a consolation prize for the Senate after Augustus stripped away the military provinces. Carthage, rebuilt by Julius Caesar on the site Scipio had razed in 146 BCE, had grown back into the empire's second-busiest port, its harbor feeding Rome's grain supply almost as heavily as Egypt's.

Organized after Carthage's destruction in 146 BCE, at the end of the Third Punic War.

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Sources

  • Cassius Dio, Roman History 53.12
  • Barrington Atlas

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