Moesia Secunda

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Moesia Secunda was a late Roman province in the Balkans, formed from the reorganization of earlier Moesian territories and strategically located along the lower Danube frontier.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Moesia Secunda canonical 3
Moesia II 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf late Roman province
borderedBy Danube River
linked to: Danube
capital Marcianopolis
containsCity Dorostolon
Durostorum
Marcianopolis
containsFort Danubian limes forts
createdInCentury 4th century
createdInPeriod Tetrarchic reforms
existedDuring 4th century
5th century
6th century
Late Antiquity
formedFrom Moesia Inferior
earlier Moesian territories
garrisonedBy Roman army
comitatenses
limitanei
hasLanguage Latin (administrative)
hasReligion Christianity (late Roman period)
hasRole Danubian frontier defense
linked to: Danubian frontier
hasStrategicImportance defense of approaches to Thrace and Constantinople
protection of lower Danube crossings
hasType frontier province
locatedIn Balkans
locatedInModernCountry Bulgaria
locatedInRegion Moesia
locatedOn lower Danube
linked to: Lower Danube
partOf Danubian provinces
Diocese of Thrace
linked to: Thraciae Diocese

Eastern Roman Empire
linked to: Byzantine Empire

Praetorian Prefecture of the East
predecessor Moesia Inferior
recordedInSource Notitia Dignitatum
reorganizedUnder Diocletian
subordinateTo vicarius of Thrace
successor Byzantine themes in the Balkans
threatenedBy Avars
Goths
Huns
Slavs
underAuthorityOf praeses
provincial governor

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

Moesia Inferior laterReorganizedAs Moesia Secunda
Thraciae Diocese hasProvince Moesia II
linked to: Moesia Secunda
Marcianopolis capitalOf Moesia Secunda