Byzacena was a Roman province in what is now Tunisia. At the end of the third century AD, the Emperor Diocletian divided the great Roman province of Africa Proconsularis into three smaller provinces: Zeugitana in the north, still governed by a proconsul and referred to as Proconsularis, Byzacena, and Tripolitania in the south. It corresponded roug...
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(from the article `North Africa`) ...Administrative changes introduced at this time included the division of the province of Africa into three separate provinces: Tripolitania ... ...of Numidia, created in the western end of Africa, was formally constituted under the emperor Septimius Severus. A century later Diocletian, in his ... [...
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