Dalmatia (Roman province)
| Provincia Dalmatia | |||||||||
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| Province of the Roman Empire | |||||||||
| 32 BC–c. 640 AD | |||||||||
Province of Dalmatia within the Empire | |||||||||
| Capital | Salona | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||
• 19–16 BC (first) | Publius Silius Nerva | ||||||||
• 480–481/2 (last) | Ovida | ||||||||
| Historical era | Antiquity | ||||||||
| 220 BC–168 BC | |||||||||
• Established | 32 BC | ||||||||
• Disestablished | c. 640 AD | ||||||||
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Dalmatia was a Roman province. Its name is derived from the name of an Illyrian tribe called the Dalmatae, which lived in the central area of the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. It encompassed the northern part of present-day Albania, much of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia, thus covering an area significantly larger than the current Croatian and Montenegrin region of Dalmatia. Originally this region was called Illyria (in Greek) or Illyricum (in Latin).
The province of Illyricum was dissolved and replaced by two separate provinces: Dalmatia and Pannonia.