At the beginning of the 4th century, the regions comprised by the modern state of Greece were divided into eight provinces: Rhodope, Macedonia, Epirus ( peiros) Nova, Epirus Vetus, Thessaly (Thessal a), Achaea, Crete (Kr ti), and the Islands (Insulae). Of the eight provinces, all except Rhodope and the Islands were a part of the larger diocese of Moesia, which extended to the Danube River in the north. (The word diocese originally referred to a governmental...
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