The ''Synecdemus'' or ''Synekdemos'' () is a geographic text, attributed to
Hierocles, which contains a table of administrative divisions of the
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived History of the Roman Empire, the events that caused the ...
and lists of their cities. The work is dated to the reign of
Justinian
Justinian I (, ; 48214 November 565), also known as Justinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 527 to 565.
His reign was marked by the ambitious but only partly realized ''renovatio imperii'', or "restoration of the Empire". This ambition was ...
but prior to 535, as it divides the 912 listed cities in the Empire among 64
Eparchies. The ''Synecdemus'', along with the work of
Stephanus of Byzantium were the principal sources of
Constantine VII's work on the Themes (''De Thematibus'').
The ''Synecdemus'' was published in various editions beginning in 1735, notably by
Gustav Parthey (''Hieroclis Synecdemus''; Berlin, 1866) and slightly later in a corrected text by A. Burckhardt in the
Teubner series.
The most recent major publication was by E. Honigmann (Le Synekdèmos d'Hiéroklès et l'opuscule géographique de Georges de Chypre; Brussels, 1939).
References
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Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium'')
Reference works in the public domain
Byzantine literature
6th-century books
6th-century manuscripts
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