The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 4
The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 4
Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman
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p. 1 24 U6. Theophyiaot, i iii. o. 4«^ Digitized byGoogk 40B THB DECLINE AND FALL During a period of two hundred years, Italy was unequally divided between the kingdom of the Lombards and tha exarchate of Ravenna. The offices and professions, whicb the jealousy of Constantine had separated, were united by the indulgence of Justinian ; and eighteen successive exarchs were invited, in the decline of the empire, with the full remains of civil, of military, and even of ecclesiastical, power. Their ...immediate jurisdiction, which was afterwards conse- crated as the patrimony of St Peter, extended over the modem Romagna, the marshes or valleys of Ferrara and Commachio,^ five maritime cities from Rimini to Ancona, and a second inland Pentapolis, between the Adriatic coas* and the hills of the Apennine. Three subordinate provinces of Rome, of Venice, and of Naples, which were divided by hostile Uinds from the palace of Ravenna, acknowled^d, both in ueace and war, the supremacy of the exarch. The duchy of Rome appears to have included the Tuscan, Sa- bine, and Ijatin conquests, of the first four hundred years of the city, and the limits may be distinctly traced along the coast, from Civita Vecchia to Terracina, and with the course of the Tyber from Ameria and Nami to the port of Ostia.
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