Theodorias (province)
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Provincia Theodorias επαρχία Θεοδωριάδος |
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| Province of the Byzantine Empire | |||||
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| Capital | Laodicea | ||||
| Historical era | Antiquity | ||||
| • | Established by emperor Justinian I | 528 | |||
| • | Muslim conquest of Syria | 7th Century | |||
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 Syria
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Theodorias (Greek: Θεοδωριάς) was a Byzantine province created in 528 by Emperor Justinian I and named in honour of his wife, the Empress Theodora.
It comprised a small coastal territory taken from the earlier provinces of Syria Prima and Syria Secunda. The new province remained part of the Diocese of the East. Its capital was Laodicea (in Syria; now Latakia), and it also included the cities of Paltus (Arab al-Mulk), Balaneae and Gabala. Ecclesiastically, these cities retained their former allegiances to the metropolitan bishops of Syria Prima and Secunda:Antioch and Apamea in Syria.
The province survived until the Muslim conquest of Syria in the 630s.
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