Valentia (Roman Britain)

Valentia was a province of the Roman Empire in Britain today. It was named after Emperor Valentinian I, it established by the Flavius ​​Theodosius comes in the year 369 AD .. She had a consularis as governor.

Location and size of the province are controversial in the research. Have been proposed as the northern Wales or a division of the existing province of Britannia secunda with capital Eboracum ( York). Valentia might have been doing what is now Cumbria. Is extremely unlikely that the province such as older reconstructions felt north of Hadrian's Wall in southern Scotland was. Has also been proposed that it was not at Valentia to a province, but the temporary designation of the Diocese of the British provinces.