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Dux Foenicis
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(10-30-2017, 08:23 PM)Lothia Wrote: Ave Civitas,

I am trying to find information about the extent of the area under the protection of the Dux Foenicis.

Phoenice (aka Syria Phoenice / Foenice, Phoinike, Φοινίκη) was the southern part of Syria, split away from the northern part (Syria Coele) by Severus. It was later subdivided several times, but the command of the Dux Phoenicis/Phoenices/Foenicis seems to have concerned only the eastern part of the province, centred on Emesa (which seems to have been the civil capital) and Palmyra - the main legion base of I Illyricorum since Diocletian, and probably the military headquarters for the region.

The dux would have been in command of all the forces and fortifications along the desert frontier, including the stretch of the Strata Diocletiana between just north of Palmyra and just south of Damascus. A Dux Phoenices (possibly named Maurus) was involved in the war with Mavia's Saracens in c.AD377, fighting alongside the Magister Equitum per Orientem.

Here's a map (from wikipedia!) showing the extent of the divided province after 400 - exact boundaries are probably rather speculative...

[Image: Dioecesis_Orientis_400_AD.png]
Nathan Ross
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Messages In This Thread
Dux Foenicis - by Lothia - 10-30-2017, 08:23 PM
RE: Dux Foenicis - by Nathan Ross - 10-30-2017, 09:43 PM
RE: Dux Foenicis - by Lothia - 10-30-2017, 10:38 PM
RE: Dux Foenicis - by Flavivs Aetivs - 10-31-2017, 04:13 AM
RE: Dux Foenicis - by Lothia - 10-31-2017, 12:58 PM
RE: Dux Foenicis - by Nathan Ross - 10-31-2017, 01:44 PM
RE: Dux Foenicis - by Lothia - 11-01-2017, 01:31 PM

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