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Pamphylia

Pamphylia as a province of the Roman Empire

Pamphylia is the name given in the ancient world to a region of southern Asia Minor between the Lycia south of Cilicia to the East, Pisidia to the north and Phrygia to the west.

Its name means "all the tribes," referring to the diverse populations that colonize this region from the second half of the millennium.

The Greeks based ports on the coast such Aspendos and Perge , the Phoenicians settled in Side. Became a province of the empire of Achaemenid , Pamphylia was conquered by Alexander the Great in 334 BC. AD was made a territory of the Kingdom of the Seleucids , it is given by the Romans in the kingdom of Pergamum in 188 BC. AD before becoming a Roman province in 133 BC. BC Mark Antony gives in part to the Galatian Amyntas and it becomes a Roman province until the death of the latter in 24 BC. AD It forms, as Claude , an imperial province with Lycia. Finally in the reorganization of Diocletian , it is included in the diocese of Asia and the prefecture of the East with Aspendos as its capital.

Provinces of the Roman Empire Trajan's conquest until the reforms of Diocletian, ordered by geographical regions from west to east
Iberian Peninsula	Betic Lusitania Tarraconaise (or Hispania Hither , the Gallaecia detached briefly under Caracalla)
Gaul and Germania	Aquitaine Belgium Lower Germany Upper Germany Lyon Narbonne Noricum Rhaetia
Great Britain	Britain (until 210, then Britains lower and upper )
Alps, Italy and surrounding	Italy (special status regiones XI) Alps Cottian grated Alpes Alpes-Maritimes Pennine Alps Corsica-Sardinia Sicily
Illyria, Greece and the Balkans	Achaea Dalmatia (or Illyrian ) Epirus Macedonia Lower Moesia ( Aurelian Dacia detached to 270) Moesia Superior Lower Pannonia Upper Pannonia Thrace
Dacia and around	Dacia (up to 129, then Dacies lower , upper and Porolissensis to Marcus Aurelius, then Three Dacies up to 270)
Anatolia and the Caucasus	Asia proconsular Bithynia - Bridge Cappadocia Cilicia Cyprus Galatia Lycia - Pamphylia Osroene (from 195) Mesopotamia (from 198)
Middle East	Saudi Judea (up to Hadrian and Syria-Palestine ) Syria (until 197, then Coele Syria and Syria-Phoenicia ) Armenia (115-117) Assyria (115 - 117) Mesopotamia (115-117 )
Africa	Proconsular Africa ( Numidia detached from 193) Cyrenaica - Crete Egypt Cesarean Mauretania Mauretania Tingitana
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