ABSTRACT
The detailed surveys of armies and gods from Syria have subdivided the connections between Syria and the rest of the Roman Empire somewhat excessively, and in a way socially, into a variety of religions and many military units, plus the relatively few Syrian civilians who can be traced. It is time to consolidate the information to see just where Syrians were concentrated in those parts of the empire which they reached. It will be seen that the evidence adduced, concerning principally military and religious exports from Syria to the rest of the empire, suggests that the Syrian presence in the empire was distinctly patchy. The heavy concentration on military evidence inevitably skews the results towards the imperial frontiers. This concentration of Syrian military units, especially in the Mauretanian provinces, was unusually heavy and could have had considerable effect. Mauretania Tingitana was especially subject to Syrian influence by the presence there of a heavy concentration of Syrian-recruited auxiliary regiments.
