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497: 555: 1302: 143: 655:. This edict was for establishing federate and Phylarchal presence in Phoenicia Libanensis. This sole reference to the Arab phylarchs in this province firmly establishes their presence in Phoenicia Libanensis. There's also a reference to phylarchs in the plural, in keeping with the fact that this was a large and exposed province containing desert regions, which explains the assigning of more than one phylarch to it. This text gives the phylarchs their correct rank in the Byzantine system of honors ( 762: 388: 1218: 688:
was south of Palmyra. In such an important border dispute it was al-Harith the archphylarch, not the lesser phylarchs of Phoenicia, that was involved, showing the archphylarch's transprovincial jurisdiction. Here it was al-Harith, not the dukes, who was the defender of the Roman limes, confirming the
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must have made the Roman authorities apprehensive about the safety of Palestine, and seeing that Mundir had taken a route from Palmyra to Emesa and Apamea. Byzantium wanted to protect the interior of Oriens by intercepting Mundir at Palmyra to prevent him from penetrating deeper into Roman territory.
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on the province of Phoenice Libanensis, the emperor demanded that the governor restrain the ‘powerful households’, as he declared that the lawlessness of such regions' magnates made him "feel too embarrassed even to speak of the enormity of these people’s errant behaviour, and of how they have
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and was in Sasanian hands until near the end of the war. The Sassanid Persians occupied Phoenice Libanensis alongside the entirety of the Levant from 619 to 629. Shortly after the Byzantine victory in the war and the recovery of the region, it was again lost, this time permanently, to the
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Palmyra was the last place Justinian fortified in his enormous building program all over the empire, largely for military reasons, other reasons for such building program in the region may have to do with biblical references, as Malalas refers to the biblical association of Palmyra with
609:) assigned to Phoenicia was also raised to two or more. In the edict on the province of 536, more than one phylarch is referred to. In 528 three Arab phylarchs took part in the punitive expedition against Mundhir, and dukes from Phoenicia also participated. Two of the phylarchs named by 356:
mention Lebanese Phoenicia in its Graeco-Roman borders and limits, undoubtedly based on the administrative and ecclesiastical geographies still known in the Roman Empire. William of Tyre goes on to call Damascus the “metropolis of Little Syria, otherwise called Lebanese Phoenicia”.
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attest, however, that the city became an ecclesiastical metropolis in the full sense of the term between the end of the VI century and the beginning of the VII century and that it was given its own jurisdiction, comprising the four bishoprics of
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of Phoenice Libanensis. The Notitia Antiochena, composed about 570, lists eleven bishoprics of Phoenicia Libanensis under the metropolitan of Damascus, among which it lists the “bishopric of Euhara” and the “bishopric of the Saracens.”
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states, in his Arabic chronicle, that there was a Ghassanid presence in Tadmur (Palmyra). This seems confirmed by the explanation of Justinian's edict on Phoenicia. With Palmyra being the seat of one of the two dukes of this province.
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bodyguards protecting them and an intolerable number of people behind them, all committing barefaced banditry." In October 527, Justinian’s reorganization of the military administration of Phoenicia Libanensis began, due to the pro-
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The "Edict 4" was issued in May 536 towards Phoenice Libanensis. The edict's main concern was: the assertion of the power of the civil governor over the military and his elevation from
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Due to mass administrative reforms and edicts directed at Phoenice Libanensis with the goal of preventing further pro-Sassanid raids and invasions, the province was now ruled by two
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invasion of 536, al-Harith contested Mundir's claim to the Strata (south of Palmyra in Phoenicia Libanensis), and eighteen years later in June 554 he marched as far as
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of Damascus—was "probably raised to the rank of honorary metropolis of Lebanese Phoenicia in the second half of the fifth century" according to Julien Aliquot.
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in Syria Prima to counter Mundir's invasion of Byzantine territory, leading a battle that led to Mundir's death, the day the battle took place is titled in
1818: 629:. In the mid-530s Justinian initiated a wide-ranging program of administrative reforms in the eastern provinces, which included Phoenicia Libanensis. 1298:, although it is dated by him to around the year 760 – "more than a century after the Muslim conquest of the Near East" – which is an unlikely date. 368:
of the Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East. In the list of episcopal titles, for instance, the Archbishops of Emesa, Baalbek, and Palmyra are “
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of Phoenice in its east (Phoenice Libanensis), and of all the forces and fortifications along the desert frontier, including the stretch of the
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was discovered in the monastery of Spelaion, in the diocese of Emesa, in Phoenice II. Following this event, Emesa—which had first been a
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Rustum, A., 1988. Kanisat Madinat Allah Antakia el Ouzma , Volume I, Éditions de la Librairie Saint-Paul, Beirut, Lebanon, p 399.
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Rustum, A., 1988. Kanisat Madinat Allah Antakia el Ouzma , Volume I, Éditions de la Librairie Saint-Paul, Beirut, Lebanon, p. 61-62
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The ecclesiastical administration paralleled the political, but with some differences. When the province was divided c. 394,
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Arab raids on the territory. This was amongst his first acts after taking the Byzantine throne. He added a duke (Latin:
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Charon, C., 1907. La hiérarchie melkite du patriarcat d'Antioche, in: Échos d'Orient, tome 10, n°65, pp.223–230. Doi:
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The supreme phylarch al-Harith appears everywhere in Oriens defending Byzantine interests. After three years of the
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c. 450; after 480/1, however, the Metropolitan of Tyre established himself as the first in precedence (
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between just north of Palmyra and just south of Damascus. A Dux Phoenices was involved in the war with
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dispute between al-Harith and Mundir, which served as Persia's pretext for the outbreak of the
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in mind, expecting the dux in Phoenicia to protect the Holy City. Mundhir's raid as far as the
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view that it was to the Ghassanids (and not the dukes) that the defense of the oriental
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Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 1, Part 2, Ecclesiastical History
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was primarily left. In his account of the Ghassanids' buildings, the Islamic author
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was first written. According to Julien Aliquot: "The subsequent alterations of the
1254:) of all the Metropolitans subject to Antioch. In February 452 the alleged head of 1250: 819: 626: 610: 468: 267: 69: 1867:. Dumbarton Oaks. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University. 1587:. Dumbarton Oaks. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University. 1217: 537:, Patricius, to reconstruct Palmyra, its churches, and its baths, and stationed a 1899: 1626:
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1445: 713: 681: 657: 410: 613:; Naaman and Jafna, may have been appointed to the newly reorganized province. 1507:"The Operational Methods of the Late Roman Army in the Persian War of 572–591" 774: 445: 437:(Φοινίκη Λιβανησία), with Tyre and Emesa as their respective capitals. In the 1634: 1562: 1882:
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It's unknown if the province kept its name after the Byzantine reconquest.
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This situation, "conforming to the letter of the twelfth canon of the
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These reforms were due to the devastating raids that were led by the
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king whom Justinian claimed to have surpassed in the building of
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illustration of al-Mundhir III (right) seeking the help of the
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States and territories disestablished in the 7th century
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showing the area of the province of Phoenice Libanensis.
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that lasted for many centuries, Emesa fell in 613 to
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In contrast to the phylarch of Arabia, 459:. This division remained intact until the 141: 105: 1794:Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzantin 757:Byzantine-Sassanian War and its aftermath 588:reign, such raids have reached deep into 1462: 1429: 553: 1372: 1342: 1057:Praefectus legionis primae Illyriciorum 504:of Justinian dressed in a royal purple 395:with its provinces, as recorded in the 374:over the whole of Lebanese Phoenicia”. 154: 1640: 1523: 1512: 1077:Units from a lesser register include: 861: 520:In the edict dating from c.535–539 of 1886:Des dieux civiques aux saints patrons 1724:"Chapitre V. 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Index

Phoenice Libanensis (Roman province)
Greek
lit.
Latin
province
Roman Empire
Anti-Lebanon Mountains
Palmyra
Roman province
Phoenice
conquered
Byzantine Empire

Notitia Dignitatum
Emesa
Late Antiquity
Theodosius the Great
Muslim conquest of Syria
Phoenice (Roman province)
Jund Dimashq
Jund Hims
Jund al-Urdunn
Syria
Lebanon
Agapius of Hierapolis
Crusades
William of Tyre
Jacques of Vitry
Ottoman Empire
Rûm Christians

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