Map of the Theme of Lykandos within the Byzantine Empire in 1000 AD.
Capital
Lykandos fortress
Historical era
Middle Ages
• Arrival of Melias
903
• Elevation to theme
before 916
• Fall to the Seljuks
after 1071
Lykandos or Lycandus (Greek: Λυκανδός), known as Djahan in Armenian,[1] was the name of a Byzantine fortress and military-civilian province (or "theme"), known as the Theme of Lykandos (θέμα Λυκανδοῦ), in the 10th–11th centuries.
^Adontz, N. (1935). "Notes arméno-byzantines". Byzantion (in French). 10 (1): 161–203.
(or "theme"), known as the Theme of Lykandos (θέμα Λυκανδοῦ), in the 10th–11th centuries. The fortress of Lykandos was located in the area of modern Elbistan...
Byzantine service and became a distinguished general, founding the theme of Lykandos and participating in the campaigns of John Kourkouas against the Arabs...
the establishment of the important frontier provinces (kleisourai) of Lykandos and Leontokome on territory recently taken from the Arabs. In 907 Constantinople...
of the empire to deal with this threat, but as he was advancing towards Lykandos, he received word that a Seljuk army had made an incursion into Pontus...
in Asia Minor or Anatolia, although not continental) Koloneia (theme) Lykandos Mesopotamia (theme) Opsikion Optimatoi Paphlagonia (theme) Iberia (which...
Arab-Byzantine War: Hamdanid forces under Sayf al-Dawla raid into the theme of Lykandos, but are defeated. The Byzantines counter-attack and seize Germanikeia...
– 1170) Melias (died 934), Byzantine general, founder of the theme of Lykandos This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name...
tentatively identified as a member of the Skleros clan, became strategos of Lykandos, of the Thracesian Theme and finally domestikos ton scholon for a short...
his brother Theophilos and an Armenian contingent under the strategos of Lykandos, Melias, Kourkouas targeted Melitene (modern Malatya), the center of an...
Rustam ibn Baradu, in an attack against the Byzantine frontier province of Lykandos and its Armenian governor Melias. Melias was besieged in his fortress,...
Imperii Byzantini Bd. 2. Kappadokien (Kappadokia, Charsianon, Sebasteia, und Lykandos). Wien: Herbert Hunger. pp. 197–8. ISBN 3700104014. Retrieved 7 December...
Byzantini, Band 2: Kappadokien (Kappadokia, Charsianon, Sebasteia und Lykandos) (in German). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften...
Arab-Byzantine War: Hamdanid forces under Sayf al-Dawla raid into the theme of Lykandos, but are defeated. The Byzantines counter-attack and seize Germanikeia...
Imperii Byzantini Bd. 2. Kappadokien (Kappadokia, Charsianon, Sebasteia, und Lykandos). Wien: Herbert Hunger. p. 147. ISBN 3700104014. Retrieved 7 December 2021...
was a patrikios and commander (strategos) of the themes of Tzamandos and Lykandos in 954, when he was captured along with one of his sons (either Bardas...
north. In the ensuing battle at the fortress of Lapara in the province of Lykandos (autumn 976), however, the combined loyalist force was routed, with Bourtzes...
Imperii Byzantini Bd. 2. Kappadokien (Kappadokia, Charsianon, Sebasteia, und Lykandos). Wien: Herbert Hunger. p. 242. ISBN 3700104014. Retrieved 7 December 2021...
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