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Published: 2013-11-28 03:15:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 15740; Favourites: 150; Downloads: 418
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This map depicts the Eastern Roman Empire at the height of its geographical extent, in the year 565, following Justinian's reconquest of Italy, North Africa and Spain. Also pictured are historically accurate (given the accuracy of my source) province borders and names, as well as regional capitals and ecclesiastical capitals of the pentarchic regions.Complaints about grammatical failures in the Latin spelling/translation will be redirected to Google Translate
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When many people think of the Eastern Roman Empire, a.k.a. the Byzantine Empire, they often think it was always isolated to Eastern Europe from the Balkans eastwards. However as you show here, it retook much of what was controlled by the early Roman Empire. Good post.
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But alas, such great ambitions can never be fully fulfilled, like the attempted conquest of Parthia in nearly EVERY war with them!Β
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That was due to obsessively sticking to Caesar's old invasion plans if I recall, they were never entirely finished since he was killed before he could face off with Parthia.
Rome adopted enemy tactics but didn't really do to much innovating of it's own until much later and due to lacking a war collage or similar it's generals were often using the same tactics that were tried and tested in in terrain or climates they might not work in.
So the Parthian Campaigns were all poorly planned logistically.
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You have to remember that the Parthians couldn't conquer the Levant due to well, Roman tactics and defenses, but also due to the internal revolts they had to keep fighting, but the Romans couldn't hold Parthia even if they tried for the sake of how hard it was to keep the entire empire from collapsing in on itself!
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Indeed.
It's a case of the Parthians been unable to properly defeat the Romans own tactics and defenses on their turf and their own instability as well as the Roman's not planning the logistics of each invasion properly or adapting tactics properly.
Another problem is that Mesopotamia can't be held without taking Persia since it's not possible to properly hold and defend from raids out of Persia.Β
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Exactly
and the only way Raids from Persia could easily be stopped would be to fortify the Tigris and Euphrates along with up to Armenia to keep the Persians and other invaders outΒ
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They tried that under Septimus Severus who actually took Mesopotamia though and the Sassanids took the region back, they would have to physically take Persia which the Roman Β army just wasn't equiped for.
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Severus tried and failed, as did Julian the Apostate, since his invasion of Mesopotamia got him killed and ruined his goal of reestablishing Paganism as the dominant religion in the Empire
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Indeed so holding Mesopotamia isn't possible.
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And it's a clear example right now between Iraq and ISIS, as neither can gain the advantage over the other due to well, it being Mesopotamia! Even to this day!
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That's a bit more complicated, Daesh is stretched thin and has had it's supplies and bases wrecked by Russian airstrikes while the Iraqi army is just incompetent.
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Don't forget that if you look at a map of what Is controlled by all sides, there's a lot of desert, so it's a lot smaller then it seems
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Great job.Β I like how you show that Byzantine Africa was considerably smaller than the original Roman Africa.
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Very cool, but are you sure you've got Italy's provinces right? I think what you've marked "Aemilia" should be "Transpadana" instead (as with this map;Β www.storiadimilano.it/citta/Poβ¦ )..."Aemilia"'s a region to the south that survives today as "Emilia".Β
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That might be the case, I have no idea as I did not research the names by myself, they were copied from a book I read on the Byzantine Empire. If I remember correctly, its an old piece this one, and I'll hardly be updating it, but thanks for the tip
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