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Mesopotamia (Roman province)
Province of the Roman Empire
This article is about the province in Roman antiquity until the time of Heraclius. For the later province (theme) during the middle Byzantine era, see Mesopotamia (theme).
For other uses, see Mesopotamia (disambiguation).
Mesopotamia was the name of a Roman province, initially a short-lived creation of the Roman emperorTrajan in 116–117 and then re-established by Emperor Septimius Severus in c.
198.
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Control of the province was subsequently fought over between the Roman and the Sassanian empires until the Muslim conquests of the 7th century.
Trajan's province
In 113, the Roman emperor Trajan (r. 98–117) launched a war against Rome's long-time eastern rival, the Parthian Empire.
In 114, he conquered Armenia, which was made into a province, and by the end of 115, he had conquered northern Mesopotamia. This too was organized as a province in early 116, when coins were minted to celebrate the fact.[1]
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