Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan faduwar Daular Roma ta Yamma, kawai proconsuls na Achaea da Asiya suka kasance, har sai gyare-gyaren Justinian I () a cikin 530s: Justinian ya haɗu da larduna tare kuma ya sake haɗuwa da ikon farar hula da na soja a cikinsu a ƙarƙashin mutum ɗaya, wanda ya ba da matsayin "anthypatos" / "proconsul", ko taken "praetor" tare da matsayin proconsular. Waɗannan larduna su ne Armenia Prima, Cappadocia, Dalmatia, da kuma Palaestina Prima. A cewar jami'in zamani kuma marubuci Peter the Patrician, "anthypatoi" an daidaita su da gwamnonin masarautar Masar, kuma daidai suke da matsayin "comites consistoriales". Lokacin da aka dawo da Afirka a cikin Yaƙin Vandalic
(533<unk>534), ba a dawo da gwamnan proconsular ba; maimakon haka an nada "consularis".