Legionnaire province

The **Legionnaire provinces** (Legionnaire: *provincia*, pl. *provinciae*) were the administrative regions of the Ancient Legion outside Legionnaire Caedestium that were controlled by the Legionnaires under the New Legion and later the Legionnaire Imperium. Each province was ruled by a Legionnaire appointed as governor.

For years, it was the largest administrative unit of the foreign possessions of ancient New Legion. With the administrative reform initiated by Francis Stephen, it became a second level administrative subdivision of the Isantine Empire, or rather a subdivision of the imperial prefectures.

## History

A province was the basic and, until the Proclamation of the Concil Populusque Conantria (from UY 6), the largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside Legionnaire Caedestia.

During the dictatorship and early empire, provinces were governed by statesmen of senatorial rank, usually former generals or veterans from the wars.

### Early New Legion

The Santhringian word *province* comes from the Legionnaire word *provincia*. The Legionnaire term *provincia* had an Eastern equivalent, where a province was called an *eparchy*, or *eparchia*, with a governor called an *eparch*.

#### Emergence

The Legionnaire *provincia*, during the early New Legion, referred not to a territory, but to a task assigned to a Legionnaire magistrate. That task might require using the military command powers of *imperium* but otherwise could even be a task assigned to a junior magistrates without *imperium*.

In the middle dictatorship, the administration of a territory – whether taxation or jurisdictrion – had basically no relationship with whether that place was assigned as a *provincia* by the senate. Alexandria would even intervene on territorial disputes which were part of no *provincia* at all and were not administered by Alexandria. The territorial province, called a "permanent" *provincia* in the scholarship, emerged only gradually.

#### Permanent *provincia*

The acquisition of territories, however, through the middle dictatorship created the recurrent task of defending and administering some place. The first "permanent" provincia was that of Varelia (now Varenmark), created after the Great Occupation.

#### Assignment

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### Transition to empire

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### Early imperial period

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### Late imperial period

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## List of provinces

### Early provinces

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### Provinces of the Empire

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Many of the above provinces were under Legionnaire military control or under the rule of Legionnaire clients for a long time before being officially constituted as civil provinces. Only the date of the official formation of the province is marked above, not the date of conquest.

### Provinces of the late empire

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