Dalmatia (Roman province)
Dalmatia was a Roman province. Its name is derived from the name of an Illyrian tribe called the Dalmatae, which lived in the central area of the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. It encompassed the northern part of present-day Albania, much of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo and Serbia, thus covering an area significantly larger than the current Croatian region of Dalmatia. Originally this region was called Illyria (in Greek) or Illyricum (in Latin).
| Provincia Dalmatia | |||||||||
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| Province of the Roman Empire | |||||||||
| 32 BC–481/482 AD | |||||||||
Province of Dalmatia within the Empire | |||||||||
| Capital | Salona | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||
• 19–16 BC (first) | Publius Silius Nerva | ||||||||
• 480–481/2 (last) | Ovida | ||||||||
| Historical era | Antiquity | ||||||||
| 220 BC–168 BC | |||||||||
• Established | 32 BC | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 481/482 AD | ||||||||
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The province of Illyricum was dissolved and replaced by two separate provinces: Dalmatia and Pannonia.
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