Praetorian prefecture of Africa
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The Praetorian Prefecture of Africa (Latin: praefectura praetorio Africae) was an administrative division of the Byzantine Empire in the Maghreb. With its seat at Carthage, it was established after the reconquest of northwestern Africa from the Vandals in 533–534 by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. It continued to exist until 591, when it was replaced by the Exarchate of Africa.
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Praetorian Prefecture of Africa Praefectura Praetorio Africae | |||||||||
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Praet. Prefecture of the Byzantine Empire | |||||||||
534–591 | |||||||||
The province of Africa after the Fall of the Vandalic Kingdom | |||||||||
Capital | Carthage | ||||||||
Historical era | Late Antiquity | ||||||||
• Conquest of Vandal Kingdom | 534 | ||||||||
• Moorish revolt defeated | 548 | ||||||||
• Reorganization into the Exarchate | 591 | ||||||||
Political subdivisions | Zeugitana Byzacena Numidia Mauretania Sitifensis Mauretania Caesariensis Mauretania Tingitana Sardinia Tripolitania | ||||||||
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