Haemimontus

Haemimontus or Haemimontium was one of the 294 founded by the Roman Emperor Diocletian provinces and was formed as part of the former province of Thrace in the Dioecesis Thracia. The province extended in the eastern part of today's Upper Thracian Plain in eastern Bulgaria and the Turkish north. Neighboring provinces of Moesia were in the north, to the west of Thrace, Rhodope in the southwest, in the south of Europe. In the east the province Haemimontium bordering on the Black Sea ( Pontos Euxeinos ).

Center of the province was the city Hadrianopolis, other important cities were Anchialos, Deultum, Aquae Calidae, Mesembria and Augusta Traiana. Along the Black Sea coast through the cities of the Roman road Via pontica were (also strait, or coastal road called ) connected. Another road link was the Via Militaris, with two branches in Hadrianopolis, an east to Develtum, Aquae Calidae, Anchialos and the Black Sea and to the north with a further branch in Marc harboring ( today Karnobat ) northeast towards Marcianopolis and northwest led by Nicopolis ad Istrum.