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Also known as Byssatis, Byzacium

Byzacena (or Byzacium; ) was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis.

Key facts

Former subdivision.common_name
Byzacena
Former subdivision.subdivision
Province
Former subdivision.nation
the Late Roman Empire - Byzantine Empire
Former subdivision.era
Late Antiquity - Early Middle Ages
Former subdivision.capital
Hadrumetum
Former subdivision.title_leader
Consularis
Former subdivision.image_map
Roman Africa.JPG
Former subdivision.image_map_caption
Map of Roman Africa and Egypt; Byzacena shown in top right.
Former subdivision.life_span
293–439 534–698
Former subdivision.year_start
c. 293
Former subdivision.event_start
Division by Diocletian
Former subdivision.event1
Vandal Conquest of Carthage
Former subdivision.date_event1
439
Former subdivision.event2
Byzantine reconquest by Vandalic War
Former subdivision.date_event2
534
Former subdivision.event3
Reorganization into the Exarchate
Former subdivision.date_event3
591
Former subdivision.year_end
698

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Encyclopedic overview

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  • History
  • Episcopal sees
  • Further reading
  • See also
  • References
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Byzacena (or Byzacium; ) was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis.

== History ==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Byzacena” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.