Byzantine provincial administration established after Justinian I's reconquest of Vandal North Africa (Belisarius's Vandalic War), governing Zeugitana, Byzacena, Numidia, and the Mauretanias from Carthage before being reorganized into the Exarchate of Africa.
Reorganized in 591 into the Exarchate of Africa, which unified civil and military authority under an exarch to better resist Berber/Moorish pressure.
The standard scholarly treatment of Byzantine North Africa's administration and defense, 534-698, spanning both the Prefecture and the Exarchate.