Talk:Provincia (Nova Roma)

Nova Roma has a worldwide, international central administration and a territorial organization, consisting of provincial, regional and urban subdivisions. The provincia is the highest level of the territorial organization.

The Nova Roman Republic is divided into a number of provinciae. A provincia can comprise a single country or several, or on the other end of the spectrum, can be made up of sub-national units from a single country.Unlike provinces of Canada or American states, Nova Roman provinciae are creations of the senate, the 'national' governing body. The senate, under the lex Vedia provincialis, can create a new provincia or combine existing ones by senatus consultum. The same lex outlines the powers and duties of the provincial governors. The senate also has the power to appoint and replace governors who appoint the provincial administration and may sub-divide their provincia into regiones for administrative purposes as they deem it necessary.

Governance

The structure of the provincial government varies greatly depending upon the existing conditions of the provincia. Several provinces cross national and linguistic boundaries and thus officials may be appointed to reflect this. Other provinces are geographically large or have isolated populations. There are no real laws concerning organization of provincial government other than the lex Vedia provincialis. This creates a flexible framework for the varying realities of the provinciae.

The governor of the province can be variously termed, consul, proconsul, praetor, propraetor, or legatus pro praetore; the title depends on previous offices held by the governor. The "governor" of Italia Nova Romana is called praefectus Italiae. All provincial governors are subordinate to the senate and to the central magistrates.

Both the administrative office of the governor and the headquarter of the provincial administration are called the praetorium. The governor's staff personnel, the cohors praetoria, consist of various officials executing the orders of the governor and may include legates, prefects and scribes, more rarely a provincial quaestor or proquaestor, a procurator, sometimes a curator aranearius and a provincial sacerdos.

In some provinces, the governor shares his power with a provincial council, the consilium provinciae, sometimes mistakenly called curia, but in most of the provinces it is just an advisory body to assist the governor, and there are also provinces where there is no consilium provinciae at all.

It is a very important point to note, however, that provincial administrations are not territorial "self-governments"; Nova Roman provinciae are not independent or autonomous, nor free from the strict control of the central administration, but, on the contrary, they are tools of the central government to take directives and execute orders and instructions given from the senate and the consuls. The provinces of Nova Roma, just like those in the ancient republic, are a means for unity and effective administrative action, and not a provision for federalism or territorial autonomy.

Provinces of Nova Roma

The list of current Nova Roma provinces have been reviewed by the Senate in its sessions of January, March and November 11, 2763 auc. Nova Roma provinciae are the following ones :

a nb	Name	Creation date	SC of creation	Delineation date	Last delin. SC	Countries	Current governor	First appt date	Last appt date	If no gov., last one	Vacant since
1	America austroccidentalis	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	U.S.A. states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah	Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Postumianus	none	none	none	none
2	America austrorientalis	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	U.S.A. states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississipi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia,North and Sth Carolina and Florida	Gaius Aquillius Rota	none	none	none	none
3	America boreoccidentalis	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	U.S.A. states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska	Vibia Rutilia Enodiaria	none	none	none	none
4	America medioccidentalis superior	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	U.S.A. states of Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri	Gaius Pompeius Marcellus	none	none	none	none
5	Argentina	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	Argentine Republic, Rep. of Paraguay, Oriental Rep. of Uruguay	none	none	none	none	none
6	Australia	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand	none	none	none	none	none
7	Brasilia	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	Fed. Rep. of Brazil	Gaius Arminius Reccanellus	none	none	none	none
8	Britannia	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, without Northern Ireland	Gaius Marcius Crispus	none	none	none	none
9	California	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	U.S.A. states of California, Nevada, and Hawaii	Quintus Fabius Maximus	none	none	none	none
10	Canada Citerior	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	Prov. of Ontario, Québec, Labrador-Terre Neuve, New Brunswick, New Scotland	Gnaeus Iulius Caesar	none	none	none	none
11	Canada Ulterior	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	Prov. of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, British Columbia, and Yukon, Northwest and Nunavut Territories	Gnaeus Iulius Caesar	none	none	none	none
12	Dacia	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	Rep. of Romania and Rep. of Moldavia to river Dniestr	Titus Iulius Sabinus	none	none	none	none
13	Gallia	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	Kingdom of Netherlands, Grand-Duché of Luxembourg, Kgd of Belgium, Rép. Française, Principality of Monaco, French-speaking Swiss territories, without the German-speaking territories of Belgium, except French overseas territories	none	none	none	none	none
14	Germania	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	Rep. of Germany, of Austria and Principality of Liechtenstein, the German-speaking territories of Switzerland and Belgium	none	none	none	none	none
15	Guria	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	Both Koreas	none	none	none	none	none
16	Hibernia	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	Island of Ireland (Rep. of Ireland and U.K. Northern Ireland)	none	none	none	none	none
17	Hispania	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	Rep. of Portugal and Kingdom of Spain	none	none	none	none	none
18	Italia	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	Rep. of Italy, Vatican, San Marino, Malta and the Italian-speaking Swiss territories	Consul maior by interim	none	none	none	none
19	Lacus Magni	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	U.S.A. states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia	none	none	none	none	none
20	Mediatlantica	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	U.S.A. states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia	Tiberius Galerius Paulinus	none	none	none	none
21	Nipponia	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	Emp. of Japan	none	none	none	none	none
22	Nova Britannia	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	U.S.A. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.	none	none	none	none	none
23	Nova Hispania	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	United Mexican States, Belize, Republics of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama	none	none	none	none	none
24	Pannonia	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	Reps. of Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Rep.	Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus	none	none	none	none
25	Sarmatia	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	Ukraine, Russian Federation, Rep. of Belarus, and the Transnistria (East Bank of river Dniestr)	Titus Flavius Severus	none	none	none	none
26	Thule	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	Rep. of Iceland, Kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, Rep. of Finland	none	none	none	none	none
27	Venedia	Nov. 11, 2762	SL 17710	Nov. 20, 2763	SL 17710	Rep. of Poland	none	none	none	none	none

Note :

• When, in addition of its wiki pages, the province proposes a special web site or list of discussion, its link is included in the column "countries" ;
• Apart Italia, all provinces are called "provinciae" (provinces). Italia is called "praefectura" ;
• All governors are also called "legatus pro praetore" (plural "legati"), except the gov. of Italia who is called "Praefectus" ;
• The formal title of each governor depends on her/his seniority and cursus : a former consul, for ex., is called "proconsul". To check the exact title of each governor, see her/his personal album civium page.

Map of Nova Roman Provinces

This new map updates the provincial organization of Nova Roma on Kal. Ian. 2764 auc (Jan. 1, 2011 cc). As the legend says it, you will find in light grey the territories not yet organized in provinces (no citizen or less than five), and in grey the provinces which still exist, but which have no governor currently and/or face a decreased activity.