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The Roman province of Asia was the administrative unit added to the late Republic , a Senatorial Province governed by a Proconsul . The arrangement was unchanged in the reorganization of the Roman Empire of 211 . Antiochus III the Great had to give up Asia when the Romans crushed his army at the historic Battle Of Magnesia , in 190 BC . After the Treaty Of Apamea ( 188 BC ), the entire territory would be surrendered to Rome and placed under the control of a client king at Pergamum . In 133 BC , Attalus III , king of Pergamon , having no heirs to succeed him, bequeathed his kingdom to Rome, and after some hesitation the Roman province of Asia Proconsularis was formed, embracing the regions of Mysia , Lydia , Caria , and Phrygia . Asia great cities, like Ephesus and Pergamum , were among the greatest metropolis of the Empire. After 326 , when the Emperor Constantine I moved the capital to Byzantium, which he refounded, the province of Asia was more centrally situated than ever, and remained a center of Roman and Hellenistic culture in the east for centuries, and the territory remained part of the Byzantine Empire until the 15th Century . SEE ALSO
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