Provincia (Nova Roma)

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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. According to Roman constitutional logic, provinces are organized as part of the ceremonial military structure of Nova Roma and are administered by military command. The democratic element of local government can be found in the municipalities which are exempt from under the direct command of the governor.

The Nova Roman Republic is divided into a number of provinciae. A provincia can comprise of a single country or several, or 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 article V.C. of the the lex Cornelia Domitia de re publica constituenda, 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.

Contents 1 Governance 2 Italia and the current provinces of Nova Roma 3 Provicial Reporting 4 Maps of all current provinces by continents 4.1 Europe 4.2 America 4.3 Australia 5 Previous provinces of Nova Roma

Governance

The structure of the provincial government varies greatly depending upon the existing conditions of the provincia, but it is always a military command, part of the ceremonial military structure of Nova Roma. Each governor is a commanding general, a special commissioner of the senate with imperium. Officials of each provincial government are officers of the ceremonial (reenactment) army of Nova Roma. 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 as stipulated in article V.C of the lex Cornelia Domitia de re publica constituenda. This creates a flexible framework for the varying realities of the provinciae.

The governor of the province, a local commander-in-chief of the Nova Roman ceremonial (reenactment) army, is either a magistrate or a promagistrate, and depending on this, they can be variously termed, consul, proconsul, praetor, propraetor, or legatus pro praetore; the title depends on previous offices held by the governor. There are some exceptional terms in use, too: the mixed title propraetor pro consule describes a former praetor who was given consular power within his province instead of the usual praetorian power. The title quaestor pro praetore indicates a temporary governorship when the quaestor of a province is standing in for the previous governor by the will of the senate until a permanent successor is found. The title dux distinguishes the chief-governor of a dioecesis, a cluster of provinces temporarily combined together for reorganization. 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, provosts and various apparitors, more rarely a provincial quaestor or proquaestor, sometimes a curator aranearius and a provincial sacerdos.

In some provinces, the governor shares his power with a provincial council, the consilium provinciae, 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 that provincial administrations are not territorial "self-governments". Nova Roman provinces are not autonomous: they are under the strict control of the central administration. The provinces of Nova Roma are the tools of the central government to take directives, 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.

Italia and the current provinces of Nova Roma

The following table shows the current provinces of Nova Roma, the countries and states were they are operated, the status of provincial development which is a marker of how active the province is (conventions, events, programs, festivals, reenactment units, and online provincial forum activity), and their current governors with their gubernatorial titles. Four of the provinces, Britannia, Gallia, Germania and Thule, are currently provinces only in name: they are temporarily joined up as as subprovinces of a dioecesis, a superprovince, for complete reorganization. For the duration of the reorganization, this dioecesis fills role of real province, while Britannia, Gallia, Germania and Thule are filling the role of subprovince, a special higher level regio.

	PROVINCIA	TERRITORY	STATUS	CURRENT GOVERNOR
1	Italia	Italy, Vatican, San Marino, and Malta	UNSATISFACTORY	Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Praefectus Italiae
2	America Cismississippiana	USA - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and the overseas territories of Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands	UNSATISFACTORY	P. Aurelius Barbatus Praetor
3	America Hispanica	USA - Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico	ABANDONED	D. Aurelius Ingeniarius Propraetor
4	America Noveboracensis et Mediatlantica	USA - Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia	UNSATISFACTORY	T. Domitius Draco Proconsul
5	America Transmississippiana	USA - Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming	UNSATISFACTORY	Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Proquaestor pro praetore
6	Australia	Australia and New Zealand	UNSATISFACTORY	D. Aurelius Ingeniarius Propraetor
7	Brasilia	Brazil	UNSATISFACTORY	Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Proquaestor pro praetore
8	Britannia	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Ireland	RE-ESTABLISHED	C. Petronius Stephanus Turpilianus consul
9	California	USA - California, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Hawaii	UNSATISFACTORY	Q. Fabius Maximus Proconsul
10	Canada	Canada	ABANDONED	P. Iunius Brutus Legatus pro praetore
11	Dacia	Romania and Moldavia	UNSATISFACTORY	Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Legatus pro praetore
12	Europa Celtica et Germanica	Established as a superprovince, a dioecesis, comprising those European provinces which are in need of reorganization and reactivation: It includes the following four subprovinces:	EXCELLENT	Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Dux dioecesisó
	(I) Gallia	Province II of the dioecesis: France and French overseas territories, Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco	(see above)	Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Dux et legatus pro praetore
	(II) Germania	Province III of the dioecesis: Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Netherlands	(see above)	Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Dux et legatus pro praetore
	(III) Hispania	Province IV of the dioecesis: Portugal and Spain	(see above)	Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Dux et legatus pro praetore
	(IV) Thule	Province V of the dioecesis: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland	(see above)	Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Dux et legatus pro praetore
13	Lacus Magni	USA - Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky	UNSATISFACTORY	Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Legatus pro praetore
14	Marcomannia	Czechia and Slovakia	UNSATISFACTORY	Ti. Iulius Nerva Legatus pro praetore
15	Nova Britannia	USA - Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island	ACTIVE	M. Cassius Iulianus Proconsul
16	Nova Hispania	Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama	UNSATISFACTORY	Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Proquaestor pro praetore
17	Pannonia	Slovenia and Hungary	EXCELLENT	Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Legatus pro praetore
18	Sarmatia	Ukraine	UNSATISFACTORY	M. Hortensia Maior Fabiana Faustina Propraetrix
19	Scythia et Russia	Russia and Belarus	UNSATISFACTORY	M. Hortensia Maior Fabiana Faustina Propraetrix
20	Thracia	Bulgaria	ACTIVE	A. Vitellius Celsus Legatus pro praetore

Note :

• When, in addition to its wiki page, a province has an official web site or discussion list, a link is included in the column "countries".
• Except for Italia, all provinces are called "provinciae" (provinces). Italia is called "praefectura".
• Governors are called "legatus pro praetore", "praetor" or "consul", "propraetor" or "proconsul", except the governor of Italia who is always called "praefectus".
• The new maps below update the provincial organization of Nova Roma on a.d. VIII Id. Oct. Q. Arrio (II) T. Domitio (III) cos. ‡ MMDCCLXXIII a.u.c.
• Regions in light grey are territories not yet organized in provinces.

Provicial Reporting

The provinces are subject to annual reporting, conducted by the senate. Governors are generally requested to submit a report to aid the evaluation of the performance of their province in accordance with criteria defined by the Senatus consultum de provinciis ordinandis. The following links are to provincial reports over the years:

• Provincial reports M. Cotta C. Petronio cos.
• Provincial reports Q. Arrio (II) T. Domitio (III) cos.

Maps of all current provinces by continents

Europe

America

Australia

Previous provinces of Nova Roma

	Provincia	Territory	Status
1	Alasca et Havaia	USA states of Alaska and Hawaii	Merged
2	America austroccidentalis	U.S.A. states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah	Extinct
3	America austrorientalis	U.S.A. states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississipi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia,North and Sth Carolina and Florida	Extinct
4	America boreoccidentalis	U.S.A. states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska	Extinct
5	California	U.S.A. states of California, Nevada, and Hawaii	Extinct
6	America Deserta	USA states of Arizona, Nevada and Utah	Merged
7	America Gallica	USA states of Arkansas and Louisiana	Merged
8	Hibernia	Island of Ireland (Rep. of Ireland and U.K. Northern Ireland)	Extinct
9	America Mississippiensis	USA - Mississippi and Alabama	Merged
10	America Missuriensis	USA - Iowa and Missouri	Merged
11	America Montana	USA - Montana and Wyoming	Merged
12	America Nebrascensis	USA - Nebraska and Kansas	Merged
13	America Noveboracensis	USA - New York and New Jersey	Merged
14	America Oregonensis	USA - Idaho, Oregon and Washington	Merged
15	America Texia	USA - Texas and Oklahoma	Merged
16	America Transappalachiana	U.S.A. States of USA - Tennessee and Kentucky	Merged
17	Argentina	Argentine, Paraguay and Uruguay	Extinct
18	California Angelensis	USA - California south of Paso Robles and Delano	Merged
19	California Franciscensis	USA - California north of Paso Robles and Delano	Merged
20	Canada Citerior	Canada - Ontario, Québec, Labrador-Terre Neuve, New Brunswick and New Scotland	Merged
21	Canada Ulterior	Canada - Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest and Nunavut	Merged
22	Carolina	USA - North Carolina and South Carolina	Merged
23	Columbia	USA - Maryland and the District of Columbia	Merged
24	Dacota	USA - North Dakota and South Dakota	Merged
25	Georgia Florida	U.S.A. USA - Florida and Georgia	Merged
26	Guria	North Korea and South Korea	Extinct
27	Mediatlantica	USA - Pennsylvania and Delaware	Merged
28	Minnesota	USA - Minnesota	Merged
29	Nipponia	Japan	Extinct
30	Nova Britannia Citerior	USA - Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont	Merged
31	Nova Britannia Ulterior	USA - Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.	Merged
32	Ohio	USA - Ohio	Merged
33	Venedia	Poland	Extinct
34	Virginia	USA - Virginia and West Virginia	Merged
35	ARCHIVAL PAGE FOR Lacus Magni	U.S.A. states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia	Reformed
36	ARCHIVAL PAGE FOR Mediatlantica	U.S.A. states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia	Reformed