Following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, only the proconsuls of Achaea and Asia remained, until the reforms of Justinian I () in the 530s: Justinian merged provinces together and reunited civil and military authority in them under the same person, to whom he gave the rank of "anthypatos"/"proconsul", or the title of "praetor" with a proconsular rank. Such provinces were Armenia Prima, Cappadocia, Dalmatia, and Palaestina Prima. According to the contemporary official and writer Peter the Patrician, the "anthypatoi" are equated the augustal governors of Egypt, and equal of rank with the "comites consistoriales". When Africa was recovered in the Vandalic War (533–534), the proconsular governor was not restored; instead a "consularis" was appointed.