What was the most troublesome Roman province?

jews. Not even memeing

Was filled with jews. Tons of people getting assblasted over muh one god and not wanting to offer worship to the emperor's genius the one time a year it was required. Also a bunch of wannabe prophets telling people they were there to Make Israel Great Again and taking up arms against the Romans, typically as partisans and guerrilla fighters.

What was it with the Romans and funny province shapes? Lugundensis, in particular, makes no sense; Crete & Cyrenaica is also pretty weird.

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Life of Brian is basically a documentary when it comes to the Jewish rebels.

The Jews already considered it Holy Land and so were really pissed off that a pagan military autocracy were in charge.

They were mostly shaped after the land of the peoples that settled there.

They genocided the entire population of Lybia and Cyprus during the Kittos War

They also revolted countless times siding with the Persians

>nest of usurpers
based carausius
father of the first british empire

Who did?

Britain,
that was the cause of the downfall

>Parthians fify

Italia

It probably helps that the Parthians and especially Persians were rather amicable and friendly with the Jews while both pre and post Christian Rome/Byzantine tended to persecute the Jews a lot.

In that map? Mesopotamia, of fucking course.

The Jews obviously

Persians too

This. They were a problem already under seleucid rule.

Basically the jews were massacring like everyone they could before Trajan could come back from his Parthian campaign. It has been fielded in the past that the Parthians may have bribed the Jews into revolting when they did. Certainly, the timing couldn't have been better for them. Trajan would develop heatstroke and die trying to siege out the rebels and Hadrian was forced to abandon most of his conquests immediately thereafter to deal with the Jews.

yes those damn Cypriots are to blame for how the Romans treated Jews

Jews were just defending themselves from anti-semitism. They did nothing wrong

>Jews were just defending themselves from anti-semitism.
>literally commited a genocide in Cyprus

>And while Trajan gets what he wants, a conquest of Parthia
lol

The Bible itself shows the Hebrews have a long history of revolting against dominating powers. The Romans themselves had a hell of a time smashing them in the first war. Ideally you'd just have legions stationed near major Jewish population centers. However, this would have sucked manpower from Trajan's war. Second problem was that Mesopotamia was home to large jewish populations since the captivity and many of them fought for Parthia and revolted in the wake of Trajan's army. So when it became Romans fighting Jews in the East, the jews back west started to get butthurt... only forty years after the first war. Add the relative lack of legionary presence across the Eastern medi, and this ends in utter disaster.

And while Trajan gets what he wants, a conquest of Parthia and glory, the failure to deal with the Jewish revolt early means he's destined to lose his conquest too. Sieging down forts over and over again in the baking sun, dealing with hebrew bandits at his flank and Parthian cavalry at his front, it is quite amazing he accomplished all that he did. But it ended up killing him, depopulating numerous agriculturally productive or mineral-rich regions of the Empire, and signaled the high-water mark of Roman conquest.

It's worth remembering that Roman Britain accounted for about 3-4% of the Empire's land area and only a slightly greater percentage of its population, yet at times 10% of Rome's legionaries were stationed there

They didn't.

Belgium

>The Bible itself shows the Hebrews have a long history of revolting against dominating powers.
Well except against the Achaemenids.
And the Arsacids.
And the Sassanids.

Seems in more recent times they have an issue with Greco-Romans trying to force them into polytheism.

Because the amount of raiding across the border. They needed to go remove Irish/Picts so the province could be completely pacified inland and then the majority of the legions would only be needed for shore defense.

it eventually calmed down

Britain was a backwater province that was forgotten about during the fall

They got what was coming to them in the end

One of Aurelian's greatest victories was winning back Postumus' Gallic Empire.

What's with those pointless tiny Alpine provinces?

Jews were worse then ISIS. They migrated all across the Eastern Mediterranean then killed the Pagans in giant revolts for practicing their native pagan religion in their native pagan land. How they survived so long with out the Romans genociding them is a mystery.

Pontus. That's where King Mithridates came from, and he was the dangerous enemy Rome had during the Republican era, second only to Hannibal and Pyrrhus.

>In Cyprus a Jewish band under a leader named Artemion took control of the island, killing tens of thousands of Cypriot Greek civilians. The Cypriot Jews participated in the great uprising against the Romans under Trajan (117), and massacred 240,000 Greeks.[3][7] A Roman army was dispatched to the island, soon reconquering the capital. After the revolt had been fully defeated, laws were created forbidding any Jews to live on the island.
The number may have been overestimated but the fact remains that they targeted Greeks in their massacre

>massacring 240,000 Greeks

so they killed the whole population of the island?

Give me a fucking break

pretty much why I said the numbers were most likely overestimated
still, a regular rebellion wouldn't involve the ethnic cleansing of the native locals, it's funny how this event is never mentioned when it comes to talking about Jewish attrocities

Dacia. You had an emperor dying on the battlefield there and it was the first to be abandoned too.

Rhine/Danube limes, Britannia, Syria.

They refused to acknowledge what the Romans had oh goddamnit someone already made the joke

I'm pretty sure the Jews already had roads and irrigation, also education, not to mention the wine which was cultivated in the Levant thousands of years before than In Italy

>240,000 Greeks on a tiny Island
>Not the whole population

Even the most populated provinces like Gauls had only a few million people.

And the genocide in Lybia is attested by Roman Historians, Lybia was so depopulated that colonists were sent to repopulate it.

Not really. I mean, I guess he is technically only second to them in that era, but that doesn't necessarily actually mean he was very dangerous. He was just some faraway bad guy who was only ever truly dangerous on paper. Mostly stared at them menacingly and never got very far when he struck. Still not in the same league as Pyrrhus even if he is next in line, who himself is still not much compared to what Hannibal did to Rome.

>first to be abandoned
Dacia was abandoned more than a century after Trajan's eastern conquests were abandoned.

>Trajan's eastern conquests were abandoned.

Those were meme "provinces". I always laugh when I see maps of the Roman Empire stretching to the Persian Gulf.

By that logic its Mesopotamia considering the first Roman Emperor actually killed in battle was Gordian III against the Persians.