 List of governors of Roman Egypt

During the Classical Roman Empire, the governor of Roman Egypt "(praefectus Aegypti)" was a prefect who administered the Roman province of Egypt with the delegated authority "(imperium)" of the emperor.Egypt was established as a Roman province in consequence of the Battle of Actium, where Cleopatra as the last independent ruler of Egypt and her Roman ally Mark Antony were defeated by Octavian, the adopted heir of the assassinated Roman dictator Julius Caesar.