 In essence however they merely recognized and formalized the greater prominence of the local general, or , over the respective civilian praetorian prefect as a result of the provinces' precarious security situation.This trend had already featured in some of the administrative reforms of Justinian I in the 530s.Justinian had given military authority to the governors of individual provinces plagued by brigandage in Asia Minor, but more importantly, he had also created the exceptional combined military-civilian circumscription of the and abolished the civilian Diocese of Egypt, putting a with combined authority at the head of each of its old provinces.