proconsulship


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Synonyms for proconsulship

the position of proconsul

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Because America was never a true colonial power, however, the idea of proconsulship here was more controversial.
and his proconsulship of Asia in 7 B.C.E., see Velleius 2.100.4 and Josephus, AJ 16.172.
As a result of his uncouth pronouncements, Patton's otherwise astute and vocal anti-communist rhetoric found little support, and indeed gave him very little margin of tolerance when his proconsulship of Bavaria later ran into trouble.
9.39 for sensitivity to the short duration of the proconsulship, the beginning of which is disputed but probably fell in the middle of April (Clarke 1972: 1053 n.
The inscription below the pediment indicates that the temple was dedicated in 183-4 by a Roman senator who had risen to hold the proconsulship of Asia.
The Tarsus Preface refers to the period of the proconsulship of Theodosius the Younger.
Mexican educator, politician, essayist, and philosopher, whose four-volume autobiography--consisting of Ulises criollo (1935; "Creole Ulysses"), La tormenta (1936; "The Torment"), El desastre(1938; "The Disaster"), and El proconsulado(1939; "The Proconsulship")--is one of the finest sociocultural studies of 20th-century Mexico.