Editing Lydia (section)

=== Roman province of Lydia ===
[[File:Lydia circa 50 AD - English legend.jpg|thumb|280px|Lydia circa 50 AD]]
Under the [[tetrarchy]] reform of Emperor [[Diocletian]] in 296 AD, Lydia was revived as the name of a separate Roman province, much smaller than the former satrapy, with its capital at Sardis.
 
Together with the provinces of [[Caria]], [[Hellespontus (province)|Hellespontus]], [[Lycia]], [[Pamphylia]], [[Phrygia prima]] and [[Phrygia secunda]], [[Pisidia]] (all in modern Turkey) and the Insulae ([[Ionian islands]], mostly in modern Greece), it formed the [[diocese]] (under a ''[[vicarius]]'') of [[Asia (Roman province)|Asia]]na, which was part of the [[praetorian prefecture]] of Oriens, together with the dioceses [[Pontiana]] (most of the rest of Asia Minor), Oriens proper (mainly Syria), Aegyptus (Egypt) and [[Thraciae]] (on the Balkans, roughly Bulgaria).