RE: Damned Muslims
October 28, 2010 at 5:27 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2010 at 5:28 pm by Minimalist.)
Quote:Well, maybe i shouldve said that if a province wasnt substainable it wouldve ended up being abandoned, as britain eventually was. There'd be no sense in occupying land that wasnt of any economic or military importance afterall.
The only instance I can think of for this was in 119 when Hadrian voluntarily relinquished territory east of the Euphrates which had been conquered by Trajan a few years earlier. Hadrian regarded the position as untenable in the face of a potential renewed Parthian assault and wanted the Euphrates for a boundary.
The whole thing was going to shit by the time the Romans withdrew from Britain.