title: Praetorian
text: # Praetorian
  
  Praetorian is an adjective derived from the ancient Roman office of praetor. It may refer to:
  
  ## Government and military
  
  * Legatus (Praetorian legate), the title of a high military rank in the Roman Empire
  * Praetorian Guard, a special force of skilled and celebrated troops serving as the personal guard of Roman Emperors
  * Praetorian prefect, the title of a high office in the Roman Empire
  
  ## Places
  
  * Praetorian prefecture, the largest administrative division of the late Roman Empire, above the mid-level dioceses and the low-level provinces
     * Praetorian prefecture of Africa, division of the Eastern Roman Empire established after the reconquest of northwestern Africa from the Vandals
     * Praetorian prefecture of Gaul, included Gaul, Upper and Lower Germany, Roman Britain, Spain and Mauretania Tingitana in Africa
     * Praetorian prefecture of Illyricum, included, in its greatest expanse, Pannonia, Noricum, Crete and most of the Balkan peninsula except Thrace
     * Praetorian prefecture of Italy, included the Italian peninsula, the Western Balkans, the Danubian provinces and parts of North Africa
     * Praetorian prefecture of the East, included the larger part of the Eastern Roman Empire
  
  ## Arts, entertainment, and media
  
  * Praetorian (novel), book by Simon Scarrow
  * Praetorians (album), a 2008 black metal album by Naer Mataron
  * Praetorians (video game), a 2003 real-time strategy computer game
  * The Praetorian, a conservative newspaper at the University of California, Riverside
  * Praetorian (novel), book by Simon Scarrow
  * Praetorians are the primary antagonist group in The Net, 1995 film featuring Sandra Bullock
  
  ## Buildings
  
  * Praetorian Building, one of the first high-rise buildings to be constructed in Dallas, Texas
  * Praetorian Palace, a 14th-century Venetian palace in the city of Koper, Slovenia
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Pax Praetoriana, the relative stability of modern South Africa and its encouragement of democratic governments in other African states
  * Glyphid Praetorian, an acid-spitting creature in the cooperative first-person shooter video game Deep Rock Galactic
  * Praetorians Roma, an Italian rugby union team scheduled to begin play in the Magners League in 2010
  * Torsus Praetorian, a 4x4 off-road bus from Ukraine
  