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    A Roman governor was an official either elected or appointed to be the chief administrator of Roman law throughout one or more of the many provinces constituting...
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  • of governors of Roman Britain from 43 to 409. As the unified province "Britannia", Roman Britain was a consular province, meaning that its governors had...
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  • This is a list of governors of the Roman province of Syria. From 27 BC, the province was governed by an imperial legate of consular rank. The province...
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    whether Greece became part of the Roman province Macedonia or was left unincorporated. Interventions by the governor of Macedonia in Greek affairs are...
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  • framework of provinces, each administered by a governor, was created by the Romans, the term governor has been a convenient term for historians to describe...
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    the Roman emperor in the West. He seized control of Dalmatia and governed it independently until his death in 468. Julius Nepos became the governor of...
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  • ... Rufinus is the fragment of the name of a governor of Britannia Superior, a province of Roman Britain probably some time during the early third century...
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  • Victorinus is the recorded name of a vicarius of Roman Britain probably serving between 395 and 406. He is mentioned by the Gaul Rutilius Claudius Namatianus...
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    During the Roman Empire, the governor of Roman Egypt (praefectus Aegypti) was a prefect who administered the Roman province of Egypt with the delegated...
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  • Chrysanthus was the name of a vicarius of Roman Britain probably in the period 395–406. Little is known about his governorship, except that he probably...
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    the oppressive rule of Roman governors, the widening gaps between the wealthy aristocracy and the downtrodden masses, and Roman and Jewish religious tensions...
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    Senate ordered Ariarathes IX deposed. With military support from the Roman governor of Cilicia Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Ariobarzanes I was installed as king...
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  • Firmilian was the Roman governor of the Iudaea Province, during the third Late Roman Period of the Roman rule over the region. He was the third of a succession...
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    The Roman conquest of Britain was the Roman Empire's conquest of most of the island of Britain, which was inhabited by the Celtic Britons. It began in...
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  • Lucius Papius Pacatianus or Pacatian was a vicarius of Roman Britain in 319. His holding the post is recorded in the Codex Theodosianus, although little...
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    Pontius Pilate (category 1st-century Roman governors of Judaea)
    Pilatus; Greek: Πόντιος Πιλᾶτος, Pontios Pilatos) was the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea, serving under Emperor Tiberius from 26/27 to...
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    throughout the Roman Empire, beginning in the 1st century AD and ending in the 4th century. Originally a polytheistic empire in the traditions of Roman paganism...
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    over Jesus by the crowd in Jerusalem to be pardoned and released by Roman governor Pontius Pilate at the Passover feast. According to all four canonical...
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    waters", a root word that formerly meant a prince or sovereign governor of a region. Ancient Romans, such as Pliny the Elder (Natural History, 3.5) and Varro...
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    Roman governors of Achaea List of Roman governors of Africa List of Roman governors of Arabia Petraea List of Roman governors of Asia List of Roman governors...
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    Mauretania (redirect from Roman Mauretania)
    executed in AD 40. The Roman Emperor Claudius annexed Mauretania directly as a Roman province in AD 44, placing it under an imperial governor (either a procurator...
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  • This is a list of known governors of the Roman province of Pannonia. The province was created from the earlier province of Illyricum between AD 20 and...
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  • a list of known Roman governors of Sicilia, the Roman province of Sicily. (The following list is based on Jonathan R. W. Prag, "Roman Magistrates in Sicily...
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    Boudica (category 60s in the Roman Empire)
    against the Romans in 47 when the Roman governor Publius Ostorius Scapula planned to disarm all the peoples of Britain under Roman control. The Romans allowed...
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    struggle against the Roman Empire as he tries to restore honor to his family's name after being falsely accused of attacking the Roman governor. Judah encounters...
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    Plautius was a Roman politician and general of the mid-1st century. He began the Roman conquest of Britain in 43, and became the first governor of the new...
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  • Nepos lived during the reign of the emperor Trajan. Pliny the Younger, a Roman writer, mentions Licinius Nepos in his letters. Pliny describes him as a...
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    former consul would usually serve a lucrative term as a proconsul, the Roman governor of one of the senatorial provinces. It would not be uncommon for the...
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  • 290s, Crete's governor held the rank of consularis. Crete became part of the East Roman or Byzantine Empire upon the partition of the Roman Empire in 395...
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    Trajan (category Roman governors of Germania Superior)
    the Roman governor), but eleutheria (freedom, in the sense of full political autonomy) was denied. Eventually, it fell to Pliny, as imperial governor of...
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