The Asian themes of the Byzantine Empire circa 842. The Cibyrrhaeots encompassed the southern shore of Asia Minor.
Capital
Attaleia
Historical era
Middle Ages
• Established
ca. 720/727
• Abolition by Manuel I
after 1150
Today part of
Greece Turkey
The Cibyrrhaeot Theme, more properly the Theme of the Cibyrrhaeots (Greek: θέμα Κιβυρραιωτῶν, romanized: thema Kibyrrhaiōtōn), was a Byzantine theme encompassing the southern coast of Asia Minor from the early 8th to the late 12th centuries. As the Byzantine Empire's first and most important naval theme (θέμα ναυτικόν, thema nautikon), it served chiefly to provide ships and troops for the Byzantine navy.
The CibyrrhaeotTheme, more properly the Theme of the Cibyrrhaeots (Greek: θέμα Κιβυρραιωτῶν, romanized: thema Kibyrrhaiōtōn), was a Byzantine theme encompassing...
The Armeniac Theme (Greek: Ἀρμενιακόν [θέμα], Armeniakoi [thema]), more properly the Theme of the Armeniacs (Greek: θέμα Ἀρμενιακῶν, thema Armeniakōi)...
the Anatolic Theme in the east (somewhere east of Chonae and Laodicea on the Lycus), and the CibyrrhaeotTheme in the south. The theme contained some...
Theme included the western and southern shores of Asia Minor as well, but by c. 720 they were split off to form the Thracesian and Cibyrrhaeotthemes...
that he was a droungarios, a mid-level commander, who served in the CibyrrhaeotTheme. In 696, Tiberius was part of an army sent by Byzantine Emperor Leontius...
From the early 8th to the 12th centuries, Rhodes belonged to the CibyrrhaeotTheme of the Byzantine Empire, and was a centre for shipbuilding and commerce...
the island of Lemnos, but are defeated by a Byzantine fleet of the CibyrrhaeotTheme. Roger I of Tosny, a Norman nobleman, leaves the battlefield of the...
to have come from a pagan temple in Tarsus in Cilicia, part of the CibyrrhaeotTheme in modern-day Mersin Province in south-eastern Turkey. It was incorporated...
title of droungarios. It was replaced with the CibyrrhaeotTheme in the early 8th century. Within each theme, eligible men were given grants of land to support...
(mod. Vandalas Çayi) in the east. The coast however belonged to the CibyrrhaeotTheme and, after the latter's disbandment sometime during the reign of Manuel...
Byzantine officer who served as the katepano of the Mardaites in the CibyrrhaeotTheme in ca. 910. Staurakios Platys is only mentioned by the De Administrando...
peacefully, but in the CibyrrhaeotTheme, resistance lingered until suppressed by strategos John Echimos. In the Thracesian theme, Thomas's soldiers turned...
strategos of the naval theme of Samos. Along with the doux of Thessalonica Nikephoros Kabasilas and the fleet of the CibyrrhaeotTheme, he confronted a Rus'...
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