Maxima Sequanorum

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Maxima Sequanorum was a late Roman province in northeastern Gaul, roughly corresponding to parts of modern eastern France and western Switzerland.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Maxima Sequanorum canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf late Roman province
administrativeLanguage Latin
administrativeLevel provincial
approximateCreationDate around 297 CE
late 3rd century
borderedBy Germania Prima
Helvetia
Sequania
capital Vesontio
capitalPresentDayName Besançon
createdUnderEmperor Diocletian
Maximian
currency Roman coinage
ethnicGroupsHistorical Helvetii
Rauraci
Sequani
governedBy praeses
hasSourceType Notitia Dignitatum
historicalRegionOverlap Alsace
Burgundy
Jura
includedCity Augusta Raurica
Aventicum
linked to: Avenches

Vesontio
includedRegion Franche-Comté
Jura Mountains
languageUsed Latin
legalSystem Roman law
locatedIn northeastern Gaul
locatedInPresentDay eastern France
western Switzerland
linked to: Western Switzerland
militaryPresence Roman limitanei
modernCountryTerritory France
Switzerland
namedAfter Sequani
partOf Diocese of Gaul
Praetorian Prefecture of Gaul
partOfFrontierSystem Upper Rhine frontier
linked to: Rhine frontier
precededBy Gallia Belgica
Germania Superior
religionOfficial Christianity
status province of the Western Roman Empire
subdivisionOf Roman Empire
successorState Burgundian Kingdom
Frankish Kingdom
timePeriod Late Antiquity

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Diocese of the Gauls hadProvince Maxima Sequanorum
subject linked to: diocese of the Gauls
Belgica Prima borderedBy Maxima Sequanorum