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The Roman Empire and Barbarian confederacies in the Balkans, c. 200 AD Throughout its history, Byzantium had fluctuating borders: the Empire often became involved in multi-sided conflicts with not only the Arabs, Persians and Turks of the east, but also with its Christian neighbours- the Bulgarians , Serbs, Normans and the Crusaders, which each ...
Moesia (/ ˈ m iː ʃ ə,-s i ə,-ʒ ə /; [1] [2] Latin: Moesia; Greek: Μοισία, romanized: Moisía) [3] was an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans south of the Danube River. As a Roman domain Moesia was administered at first by the governor of Noricum as 'Civitates of Moesia and Triballia'. [4]
Until the Modern Era, Latin was the common language for scholarship and mapmaking.During the 19th and 20th centuries, German scholars in particular have made significant contributions to the study of historical place names, or Ortsnamenkunde.
The Roman Republic conquered the region of Illyria in 168 BC in the aftermath of the Illyrian Wars. "Illyria" was a designation of a roughly defined region of the western Balkans as seen from a Roman perspective, just as Magna Germania is a rough geographic term not delineated by any linguistic or ethnic unity.
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Roman provinces after administrative reforms in the 4th century. Dardania in beige. Dardania (/ d ɑːr ˈ d eɪ n i ə /; Latin: Dardania; Ancient Greek: Δαρδανία) was a Roman province in the Central Balkans, initially an unofficial region in Moesia (87–284), and then a province administratively part of the Diocese of Moesia (293–337).
Provinces of the Western Balkans. The Illyriciani or Illyrian emperors were a group of Roman emperors during the Crisis of the Third Century who were of Illyrian origin and hailed from the region of Illyria (Latin: Illyricum, in the Western Balkans), [1] [2] [3] and were raised chiefly from the ranks of the Roman army (whence they are ranked among the so-called "barracks emperors").
Viminacium [2] (also Viminatium) was a major city, military camp, [3] and the capital of the Roman province of Moesia (modern-day Serbia).Following the division of Moesia in 87, following Domitian's Dacian War, it became the capital of Moesia Superior.