Group
Italy, Diocese of
In 212, when the Edict of Caracalla gave the Roman citizenship to all the people within the empire regardless of their ethnicity or social status, Italy began to decline in favor of the provinces.
The following crisis of the Third Century was a period in which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressures of invasion, civil war, plague, and economic depression.
In 284, the rise of Diocletian began a series of reforms to restoring civil order.
He divides the Empire into four parts and several dioceses, the so-called Tetrarchy.
Though still keeping Rome as the official capital, he chooses two other residences for the Augusti: Maximian, who is responsible for the West, is installed at Milan in northern Italy, in order to prevent German invasions; Diocletian establishes himself at Nicomedia, in Anatolia and close to the Persian frontier, in order to keep watch on the East.
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- Aquiléia Friuli-Venezia Giulia Italy Location
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- Bordeaux Aquitaine France Location
- Bra Piemonte Italy Location
- Carthage Tunis Tunisia Location
- Cisterna di Latina Lazio Italy Location
- Constantinople > Istanbul Istanbul Turkey Location
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- Elne Languedoc-Roussillon France Location
- Hasta Pompeia > Asti Piemonte Italy Location
- Milan > Milano > Mediolanum Lombardia Italy Location
- Monza Lombardia Italy Location
- Naples > Napoli Campania Italy Location
- Nicomedia > Izmit (Kocaeli) Kocaeli Turkey Location
- Poetovio > Ptuj Sisak-Moslavina Slovenia Location
- Pola > Pula Istria Croatia Location
- Ravenna Emilia-Romagna Italy Location
- Rome > Roma Lazio Italy Location
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- Verona Veneto Italy Location
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