Flavia Caesariensis

The Flavia Caesariensis was a province of the Roman Empire, and located in the present-day United Kingdom. Your creation is due to the reorganization of the Roman province being under the Emperor Diocletian. In the first half of the 4th century AD launched their capital Lindum Colonia was probably in what is now Lincoln.

The boundaries

The borders of the province have been handed down not backed up, but they seem to have extended from the southern Pennines west to the Irish Sea and to the territory of the Iceni in the south. As the capital of the northern province of Britannia secunda in Eboracum, now York was located, the provincial border may have just found a little further north of Lincoln. In the south Flavia Caesariensis hit the limits of maxima Caesariensis, a province with which it seems to have been previously united, as the common epithet suggests.

British historian Eric Birley have suspected that during the visit of Emperor Maximian Caesar Gaius Flavius ​​Valerius Constantius, Constantius Chlorus called, in the year 296 in the province of Britannia Superior Kingdom was split into the provinces of Britannia and Britannia prima Caesariensis. Britannia Caesariensis with the capital Londinium ( London) received the honorable epithet of Constantius Chlorus after his victory over the Kingdom proclaimed in anti-emperor Allectus may personally. Later, the province in a northern part, Flavia Caesariensis was charged with capital Lindum Colonia, and a southern part, Maxima Caesariensis, with its capital at Londinium divided. It probably also part of the former Britannia were beaten inferior to Flavia Caesariensis what the big near the northern border of this province to the capital of the neighboring province of Britannia secunda, which had originated from Britannia Inferior explains.