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Alexandria in the Roman Period

Type Object Region Egypt Time 30–500

After annexation into the Roman Empire in 30 BCE, Alexandria became capital of Egypt's province and a leading eastern Mediterranean center of trade, …

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  1. c. 30–100Alexandria · EgyptAfter Rome's annexation of Egypt, Alexandria was established as the administrative and fiscal center of the province of Egypt, with its harbor district and grain storage system serving the empire's food supply.
  2. c. 100–300Alexandria · EgyptIn the 2nd–3rd centuries CE, the city flourished as a shipping node of the eastern Mediterranean, where Greco-Roman philosophical, medical, and astronomical traditions continued and intersected with Jewish and Christian communities.
  3. c. 300–500Alexandria · EgyptIn the 4th–5th centuries CE, the patriarchate of Alexandria became an important ecclesiastical center of Eastern Christianity; after the empire's division the city retained commercial and religious influence until adjustments in the late Byzantine period.

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