The themes or thémata (Greek: θέματα, thémata, singular: θέμα, théma) were the main military and administrative divisions of the middle Byzantine Empire...

Άνατολικόν [θέμα], Anatolikon [thema]), more properly known as the Theme of the Anatolics (Greek: θέμα Άνατολικῶν, thema Anatolikōn), was a Byzantine theme...

Minor, and there in the period 640–660 the first themes (themata, sing. thema) were established. Initially these were simply military jurisdictions, reflecting...

outside Constantinople and closely associated with its garrison area: the thema Optimatōn, which lay across Constantinople and comprised northern Bithynia...

thema tou Aigaiou Pelagous) in c. 843, while the eastern parts of the Dodekanesos/Kolpos droungariate formed the Theme of Samos (θέμα Σάμου, thema Samou)...

judicial power. The name is peculiar; Treadgold's closest guess is that thema was being used to denote "emplacements". Modern historians agree that the...

military and administrative duties within the main sub-division inside a thema, a tourma. These deputies, or any deputy or representative of the Strategos...

suggestions ranging from Rhodes in the Dodecanese, Keos in the Cyclades, and Samos off the Anatolian coastline. The Karabisianoi have also been variously seen...

internationale des études byzantines. 71 (1): 5–59. Bees, Nikos A. (1912). "Zum Thema der Darstellung des zweiköpfigen Adlers bei den Byzantinern". Repertorium...

Asad ibn Abi Rashid Salona Salona, Lordship of Salutius Samaritan Revolts Samos (theme) Sampson the Hospitable Samuel of Bulgaria San Giovanni Theristis...

Slavic literary schools and scribes of Sinai or Mar Saba: theta ("θ" for "thema" which indicates a melodic figure over certain syllables of the text) or...