exarchate

This article is about political regions. See geologic province for geological meanings. Province is a name for a subnational entity that is a secondary level of government in most countries. In some countries an alternative term is used, such as state (in Australia, India and the United States), prefecture (in Japan), län (in Sweden), or region (in France and in Italy where provincia is a tertiary form of government, akin to a county). Various parts of the British Empire had the ...

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In many federations (particularly those that are in fact confederations), the province or state is not clearly subordinate to the national or "central" government. Rather, it is considered to be sovereign in regard to its particular set of constitutional functions. The central and provincial governmental functions, or areas of jurisdiction, are identified in a constitution. Those that are not specifically identified in the constitution are called "residual powers". These residual powers lie at the provincial (or state) level in a decentralis ...

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Province, Province - Legal aspects, Province - Historical and cultural aspects, Province - Current provinces, Province - Current provinces and polities translated province, Province - Historical provinces, Province - Ancient and medieval/feudal provinces, Province - Modern post-feudal & colonial provinces, Province - Sources and References

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The exarchate was organised into a group of duchies (i.e the Duchy of Rome, Duchy of Venetia, Duchy of Calabria, Lucania, Spoleto etc) which were mainly the coastal cities in the Italian peninsula since the Langobardos or Lombards held the advantage in the hinterland. The civil and military head of these imperial possessions, the exarch himself, was the representative at Ravenna of the emperor in Constantinople. The surrounding territory reached from the boundary with Venice in the north to the Pentapolis at Rimini, the border of the ...

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Exarchate of Ravenna, Exarchate of Ravenna - Introduction, Exarchate of Ravenna - The Exarchate, Exarchate of Ravenna - The End of the Exarchate, Exarchate of Ravenna - Exarchs of Ravenna

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Not all "second-level" polities are termed provinces. In Arab countries the secondary level of government, called a muhfazah, is usually translated as a governorate. This term is also used for the historic Russian guberniyas. Compare oblast. In Poland, the equivalent of province is województwo, often translated as voivodeship. In Peru, provinces are a tertiary unit of government, as the country is divided into twenty-five regions, ...

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Province - Ancient and medieval/feudal provinces. Pharaonic Egypt : see nome (Egypt) Achaemenid Persia (and probably before in Media, again after conquest and further extension by Alexander the Great, and in the larger Hellenistic successor states : see satrapy provinces of the Roman Empire Byzantine Empire : see exarchate, thema Frankish (Carolingian) 're-founded' Holy Roman Empire : see gau andcounty Caliphate and subsequent sultanates  ...

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Not all "second-level" polities are termed provinces. In Arab countries the secondary level of government, called a muhfazah, is usually translated as a governorate. This term is also used for the historic Russian guberniyas, (compare to modern-day oblast). In Poland, the equivalent of province is województwo, often translated as voivodeship. In Peru, provinces are a tertiary unit of government, as the country is divided into twenty-five regions, ...

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Province, Province - Legal aspects, Province - Historical and cultural aspects, Province - Current provinces, Province - Current provinces and polities translated province, Province - Historical provinces, Province - Ancient and medieval/feudal provinces, Province - Modern post-feudal & colonial provinces, Province - Sources and References

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During the 6th and 7th centuries the growing menace of the Lombards and the Franks, and the split between eastern and western Christendom caused by Iconoclasm and the acrimonious rivalry between the Pope and the patriarch of Constantinople, made the position of the exarch more and more untenable. Ravenna remained the seat of the exarch until the revolt of 727 over Iconoclasm. The last exarch of Ravenna was killed by the Lombards in 751. The exarchate was reorganized as the catapanate of Italy headquartered in Bari ...

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Exarchate of Ravenna, Exarchate of Ravenna - Introduction, Exarchate of Ravenna - The Exarchate, Exarchate of Ravenna - The End of the Exarchate, Exarchate of Ravenna - Exarchs of Ravenna

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Ravenna became the capital of the Western Roman Empire in 404 under Honorius due to its fine harbor with access to the Adriatic and ideal defensive location. The city remained the capital of the Western Roman Empire until its dissolution in 476, when it became the capital of Odoacer, then of the Ostrogoths under King Theodoric. It remained the capital of Italia, Gallia Cisalpina, Dalmatia and Sicilia under the Ostrogoths, but in 540 at the close of the Gothic Wars, Ravenna was occupied by the great Byzantine general Belisarius. After the Roman reconque ...

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Exarchate of Ravenna, Exarchate of Ravenna - Introduction, Exarchate of Ravenna - The Exarchate, Exarchate of Ravenna - The End of the Exarchate, Exarchate of Ravenna - Exarchs of Ravenna

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The word provincia was introduced by the Romans, who divided their empire into provinciae. The word is thought to have originated from the Latin word provincia (zone of influence), which is turn is thought to have derived from pro ("in front") and vincia ("linked"). In France, the expression en province still tends to mean "outside of the region of Paris". (The same expression is used in Peru, where en provincias means "outside of the city of Lima".) Prior to the French Revolution, Fran ...

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Province, Province - Legal aspects, Province - Historical and cultural aspects, Province - Current provinces, Province - Current provinces and polities translated province, Province - Historical provinces, Province - Ancient and medieval/feudal provinces, Province - Modern post-feudal & colonial provinces, Province - Sources and References

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