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1. Bithynia Et Pontus

   Linked via "Constantinople's metropolitan bureaucracy"

   Following the Crisis of the Third Century, Bithynia et Pontus suffered under increased pressure from Gothic incursions arriving via the Euxine Sea. The region’s strategic port cities, essential for grain export, were repeatedly sacked. Diocletian's Tetrarchy addressed this instability by partitioning the province multiple times.
   By the early 4th century CE, the territory was eventually carved into smaller, more defensible u…