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Province, 117 CE

Numidia

Imperial province, praetorian legateCapital: Lambaesis

Not yet a province in its own right in 117 — that formal split from Africa Proconsularis waits until Septimius Severus, around 193 CE. In practice it already ran as one: the legate commanding Legio III Augusta at Lambaesis administered this whole military district directly, building a chain of forts south from Vescera under Trajan to hold the desert frontier the Senate's Carthage-based proconsul never touched.

Not a formal province in 117 CE — run as a military district directly by the legate of Legio III Augusta. The formal split from Africa Proconsularis waits until Septimius Severus, c. 193 CE.

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Sources

  • Tacitus, Histories 4.48 (legate's authority)
  • CIL VIII (Lambaesis inscriptions)

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