 Asia Province - External link: Encyclopedia - Asia ProvinceThe Roman province of Asia was the administrative unit added to the late Republic, a Senatorial province governed by a proconsul who was an ex-consul, an honor granted only to Asia and the other rich province of Africa. The arrangement was unchanged in the reorganization of the Roman Empire of 211 CE.
"Asia" in the books of the Maccabees refers to Asia Minor, which Antiochus III (the Great) had to give up when the Romans crushed his army at the historic battle of Magnesia, in 190 BC. After the Treaty of Apamea, in 188 BC, the entire territory would be surrendered to Rome and pl ...
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