East Prefecture
Prefectures, dioceses and Roman provinces in the year 395 e.e. Prefectures, dioceses and Roman provinces in the year 400 e.e.
Prefecture of the Orient (Eastern Prefecture, Latin Praefectura praetorio Orientis) - a unit of administrative division in the Roman Empire in the last period before the division into the West Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine).
The Prefecture was established by the Emperor Constantine the Great around 326-328, e. as part of the administrative reform establishing the three-level organization of the Empire. The four prefectures were divided into civil dioceses, and in turn into provinces. It was created along with the other three prefectures: Prefecture of Gaul (Praefectura praetorio Galiarum), Prefectura Ilirii (Praefectura praetorio Illyrici) and Prefectura Italii (Praefectura praetorio Italiae).
The concept of the four prefectures referred to the idea of the organization of the Empire and the system of government under the tetrarchy introduced by the Emperor Diocletian since 286.
The Prefecture of the Orient consisted of civilian dioceses:
The first prefect of the East (in 329-337 / 338) was Flavius Ablabius, Roman consul in 331.
After the division of the Empire with the death of Theodosius I the Great in 395, the prefecture of the East became part of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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