Bithynia et Pontus

A senatorial province with an odd Trajanic exception: local finances had run so far into debt that around 110 CE Trajan sent his own trusted correspondent, Pliny the Younger, as a special imperial legate to fix it — bypassing the ordinary proconsul entirely. Pliny's surviving letters from the job, and Trajan's terse replies, are the best-documented governorship anywhere in the empire, including the famous exchange asking what to do about local Christians.

No individually mapped places in Bithynia et Pontus yet — the province still shows on the map's boundary layer.

Sources

• Pliny the Younger, Letters Book 10