Euphratensis
Roman/Byzantine province (c. 341–7th Century)
title: "Euphratensis" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["late-roman-syria", "late-roman-provinces", "provinces-of-the-byzantine-empire", "states-and-territories-established-in-the-4th-century", "4th-century-establishments-in-the-roman-empire", "states-and-territories-disestablished-in-the-7th-century"] description: "Roman/Byzantine province (c. 341–7th Century)" topic_path: "general/late-roman-syria" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphratensis" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Roman/Byzantine province (c. 341–7th Century) ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox Former Subdivision"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| native_name | |
| ἐπαρχία Εὑφρατησίας | |
| common_name | Euphratensis |
| subdivision | Province |
| nation | the Byzantine Empire |
| era | Late Antiquity |
| capital | Cyrrus or Hierapolis Bambyce |
| image_map | Dioecesis Orientis 400 AD.png |
| image_map_caption | Diocese of Orient circa 400, showing Euphratensis |
| year_start | c. 341 |
| event1 | Division of the empire by Theodosius I |
| date_event1 | 395 |
| year_end | 7th Century |
| event_end | Muslim conquest of the Levant |
| today | Syria |
| Turkey | |
| s1 | Rashidun Caliphate |
| :: |
|native_name = ἐπαρχία Εὑφρατησίας |conventional_long_name = |common_name = Euphratensis |subdivision = Province |nation = the Byzantine Empire |era = Late Antiquity |capital = Cyrrus or Hierapolis Bambyce |title_leader = |image_map = Dioecesis Orientis 400 AD.png |image_map_caption = Diocese of Orient circa 400, showing Euphratensis |life_span = |year_start = c. 341 |event_start = |event1 = Division of the empire by Theodosius I |date_event1 = 395 |year_end = 7th Century |event_end = Muslim conquest of the Levant |today = Syria Turkey |p1 = |flag_p1 = |s1 = Rashidun Caliphate |flag_s1 = Euphratensis (Latin for "Euphratean"; , Euphratēsía), fully Augusta Euphratensis, was a late Roman and then Byzantine province in Syrian region, part of the Byzantine Diocese of the East.
History
Sometime between 330 and 350 AD (likely ), the Roman province of Euphratensis was created out of the territory of Coele Syria along the western bank of the Euphrates. It included the territories of Commagene and Cyrrhestice. Its capital was Cyrrus or perhaps Hierapolis Bambyce. It remained within the Byzantine Empire following the 395 division of the empire by Theodosius I.
The province is listed in the Laterculus Veronensis from around 314.
The Roman Catholic and Orthodox saints Sergius and Bacchus were supposedly martyred in the city of Resafa in Euphratensis, and the city was later renamed Sergiopolis. Other cities in the province were Samosata and Zeugma.
References
References
- (1991). "[[Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium]]". Oxford University Press.
- Edmund Spenser Bouchier, ''Syria as a Roman Province'', 1916, [https://archive.org/details/cu31924028520728/page/n170 p. 155]
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