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Province, 117 CE

Cyprus

Senatorial province (proconsul)Capital: PaphosRoman since 58 BCE

A small senatorial province run by a proconsul, taken back from Marc Antony's old grant to Cleopatra after Actium and folded permanently into the settlement of 22 BCE. An earthquake around 76/77 CE had badly damaged Paphos; by 117 imperial funds had rebuilt its sanctuary of Aphrodite, the island's most visited shrine since Homer's day.

Annexed in 58 BCE when Cato was sent to take it; folded permanently into the settled senatorial-province system in 22 BCE.

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Sources

  • Cassius Dio, Roman History 54.4
  • Barrington Atlas
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Cyprus

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