Talk:Assyria (Roman province)

Content contradicts itself - wrong timeline

The article gives contradicting information on the time period. "Septimius Severus instituted two new Roman provinces: Mesopotamia and Osroene, a kingdom founded in the 2nd century BC,[13] centered on Edessa." and "no further reference is made to a Roman province of Assyria following Hadrian's evacuation in 118 AD. When Septimus Severus created the provinces of Osroene and Mesopotamia at the end of the 2nd century, no mention is made of a Roman province of Assyria."

How long was the province under Roman control? From 2nd century *BC* until 118AD? Or from 116AD to 118AD? That is only 2 years, as opposed to 3 centuries.

There is also a photo in wikia commons, which is currently making the rounds on Facebook: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Max_von_Oppenheim_NGS_-roman-bridge-714.jpg claiming to show a substantial stone bridge in that province. Is this true? If roman rule was only for 2 years? I cannot find an actual source relating to National Geographic stating that this was a roman bridge. They may have thought it was, but this is perhaps a false narrative being repeated from the 1920s being echo chambered in social media https://www.facebook.com/HistoricPhotographs/photos/a.220359594804465/1998991713607902/ (as of 27.12.2021, has 24k likes).

Perhaps someone can clarify this, as Wiki is being used as a source for something which seems improbable. The Facebook caption is using the same text from Wikia commons.

Lexxus2010 (talk) 06:23, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

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This is a good history of the Roman province of Assyria. It does a good job of going from the founding of the province under Trajan to the Roman retreat as well as detailing all Roman military activity in the area. The only problems are that "ostensibly" is misspelled as "obstensibly" and a picture or map of the area would be very helpful. NGupta07 18:15, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Really solid article. Good job of presenting the information as succinctly as possible. A few more wiki-links wouldn't hurt on several of the terms - the historian festus, at least one Rome should link to more general information about the empire, and maybe a link on legion. Other than that, it's great. --22:01, 15 May 2007 (UTC)Roswell Mueller

I thought this was a good article. I'm wondering though if there were particularly significant events and individuals pertinent to the province in addition to what you have already. I liked it otherwise. Jing Yuan Liu 05:23, 16 May 2007 (UTC) Jing Yuan Liu