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Roman Egypt was an imperial province of the Roman Empire from 30 BC to AD 641. The province encompassed most of modern-day Egypt except for the Sinai . It was bordered by the provinces of Crete and Cyrenaica to the west and Judaea , later Arabia Petraea , to the East.
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Byzantine-style coinage struck in Alexandria imitating...
- List of governors
List of governors of Roman Egypt. During the Roman Empire,...
- Sasanian Egypt
The Roman provinces ( Latin: provincia, pl. provinciae) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. Each province was ruled by a Roman appointed as governor. [1]
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Oct 24, 2016 · Egypt Becomes a Roman Province. With the end of a long civil war, Octavian had the loyalty of the army and in 29 BCE returned to Rome and the admiration of its people. The Republic had died with Caesar. With Octavian - soon to be acclaimed as Augustus - an empire was born. It was an empire that would overcome poor leadership and countless ...
- Donald L. Wasson
Oct 30, 2018 · Cleopatra VII (l. c. 69-30 BCE, r. 51-30 BCE) was the last ruler of Egypt before it was annexed as a province of Rome. Although arguably the most famous Egyptian queen, Cleopatra was actually Greek and a member of the Ptolemaic Dynasty (323-30 BCE) which ruled Egypt after the death of Alexander the Great (l. 356-323 BCE).
- Joshua J. Mark
Youth & Succession- Cleopatra & Julius Caesar
This introductory article begins with a description of the seven parts of this book: Land and State; City, Town, and Chora; People; Religion; Texts and Language; Images and Objects; and Borders, Trade, and Tourism. It then presents a historical overview of Egypt under Roman rule followed by a discussion of Roman Egypt in the twenty-first century.
The Ancient Egyptian word for 'nome' was 'sepat' (spAt), a word which, like the Greek, has the looser meaning of district. In the Ptolemaic and Roman Period, the series of provinces amounted to a list of twenty-two for Upper Egypt, numbered from the First Cataract in the south to the region of Tarkhan in the north, and twenty for Lower Egypt.
