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For obvious reasons, the West had been part of Rome for longer than the East. The province of Asia was willed to the Republic in the late 2nd century BC by its last king, and Syria was annexed by Pompey in the mid 1st century BC. These provinces were administered just like the western ones were.
In 43 BC, after the assassination of Julius Caesar, the chief 'Liberators', Brutus and Cassius, fled to the East. Thanks to CiceroFor other uses see Cicero (disambiguation Marcus Tullius Cicero ( January 3, 106 BC December 7, 43 BC) was an orator and statesman of Ancient Rome, and is generally considered the greatest Latin prose stylist. Biography Cicero was born in Arpinum and caug, they were legally made governors of the provinces of MacedoniaAlexander the Great, king of ancient Macedon, on the waterfront at Thessaloniki, capital of Greek Macedonia Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in south-eastern Europe with an area of around 67,000 square kilometres a and Syria, and occupied ThraceThrace is a historical and geographic area in south-east Europe spread over southern Bulgaria, north-eastern Greece, and European Turkey. Thrace borders on three seas: the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara. History The indigenous population and AchaeaThis article is about the modern Greek district Achaea. See Achaea (province) for the province of the Roman empire. See also Achaeans, a Homeric name for Hellenes. See AchaeaMud for the MUD created by Iron Realms Entertainment. Statistics Capital: Patra, as well. Meanwhile, the Second TriumvirateThe Second Triumvirate is the name historians give to the official political alliance of Gaius Iulius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Marcus Antonius ("Mark Antony"). Unlike the somewhat more famous " had formed, composed of Marc Antony, Octavian Caesar, and Lepidus. The triumvirs divided the western empire amongst themselves: Octavian received Africa, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and the Balearics; Antony, the Gallic provinces; and Lepidus, the Hispanic provinces.
The following year, the Liberators were defeated at Philippi, and in 40 BC, the empire was divided again: Octavian received Italy, Gaul, Hispania, and Illyria; Antony, Cyrenaica, Achaea, Macedonia, and Syria; and Lepidus, Africa. Sicily was controlled by pirates under the command of Sextus Pompeius.
In 36 BC, Octavian’s lieutenant Agrippa defeated Pompeius. Following his victory, Lepidus attempted to seize control of Octavian’s legions, but was defeated. Octavian unilaterally expelled Lepidus from the Triumvirate, and assumed control of his army and province.
Antony and Octavian continued to fall out, and in 32 BC, the Roman Senate declared war upon the former and his lover, Queen Cleopatra of Egypt. Octavian was pronounced dux (commander), and the entire west swore an oath of loyalty to him. The combined forces of Antony and Cleopatra were defeated the following year at the Battle of Actium, and their combined suicides the year after that left Octavian in sole control of the Roman Republic.
In 27 BC, Octavian was given the title of Augustus by the Senate, considered to be the start of the Roman Empire. The west and east were ruled as one for the next two-and-a-half centuries.