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Province, 117 CE
Moesia Inferior
Imperial province, consular legateCapital: Tomis
The eastern half of the Danube split, fronting the Black Sea's Getic and Sarmatian frontier. Its port city Tomis is best known for a single unwilling resident: the poet Ovid, exiled here by Augustus in 8 CE for reasons he never named outright, and dead in this province a decade later without ever being recalled.
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Sources
- Ovid, Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto
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