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Province, 117 CE

Sicilia

Senatorial province (proconsul)Capital: Syracusae

Rome's first province, taken from Carthage in 241 BCE at the end of the First Punic War and still, four centuries later, one of the empire's grain baskets — Cicero's prosecution of the corrupt governor Verres, delivered from this island's own farmers' complaints, remained required reading for every Roman student.

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Sources

  • Cicero, In Verrem
  • Barrington Atlas

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