Not to be confused with the Theme of Thrace, which was located in Europe.
Theme of the Thracesians
Θρᾳκήσιον θέμα, θέμα Θρᾳκησίων, Θρᾳκήσιοι
Theme of the Byzantine Empire
640s–660s / 700s–710s – c. 1078 1097–1330
The Byzantine themata in c. 780, after the split of the Opsikion.
Capital
Ephesus or Chonae (7th–11th centuries), Philadelphia and later Smyrna (12th–14th centuries)
Historical era
Middle Ages
• Established
640s–660s or c. 700s–710s
• Fall to the Seljuks
c. 1078
• Byzantine recovery
c. 1097
• Fall to the Turks
1330
The Thracesian Theme (Greek: Θρᾳκήσιον θέμα, Thrakēsion thema), more properly known as the Theme of the Thracesians (Greek: θέμα Θρᾳκησίων, thema Thrakēsiōn, often simply Θρᾳκήσιοι, Thrakēsioi), was a Byzantine theme (a military-civilian province) in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey). Created either in the mid-7th or the early 8th century as the settlement of the former Army of Thrace, after which it was named, it was one of the larger and more important themes of the Empire throughout its existence based on its proximity to Constantinople. The Thracesian Theme was one of the longest-lived themes, surviving until the region was conquered by the Turks in the early 14th century.
The ThracesianTheme (Greek: Θρᾳκήσιον θέμα, Thrakēsion thema), more properly known as the Theme of the Thracesians (Greek: θέμα Θρᾳκησίων, thema Thrakēsiōn...
Liber pontificalis, Conon was a Greek, the son of an officer from the ThracesianTheme. He was educated in Sicily, where his father may have been posted during...
866, the Opsician stratēgos, George Peganes, rose up along with the ThracesianTheme against Basil I the Macedonian (r. 867–886), then the junior co-emperor...
The theme's capital was at Amaseia, and it was governed by a stratēgos, who ranked, together with the stratēgoi of the Anatolic and Thracesianthemes, in...
Armeniac Theme, led by Karisterotzes; the Bucellarian Theme, led by Tatzates; and the ThracesianTheme, led by Lachanodrakon. Lachanodrakon besieged Germanicia...
said that, in 1038, they were dispersed in winter quarters in the ThracesianTheme when one of their number attempted to violate a countrywoman, but in...
depopulated districts of the ThracesianTheme (western Asia Minor). He undertakes a set of civil reforms, and reorganizes the theme structure in the Aegean...
peacefully, but in the Cibyrrhaeot Theme, resistance lingered until suppressed by strategos John Echimos. In the Thracesiantheme, Thomas's soldiers turned to...
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 Cibyrrhaeot themes...
historical region of Phasiane) Samos (theme) Sebasteia (theme) Seleucia (theme) ThracesianTheme Ducates or Catepanates (combined Military and Administrative...
family named Damalas/Damalis, which is seen as early as 1230 in the ThracesianTheme of the Eastern Roman Empire. Descendants of this unrelated family were...
under Michael Lachanodrakon, military governor (strategos) of the ThracesianTheme, defeats the Muslim-Arabs at the fortress city of Germanikeia in Cilicia...
Minor (modern Turkey), from south of Miletus (which belonged to the ThracesianTheme) to the confines of the Arab borderlands in Cilicia, including the...
navy on Cyprus, and transfers cavalry troops from the ThracesianTheme in Anatolia to the Theme of Thrace in the Balkan Peninsula. Battle of Tertry: King...
Details Reference Alexios Philanthropenos 1295 Blinded Governor of the ThracesianTheme, he rose up against Andronikos II Palaiologos, but was captured by...
policy. Constantine Kontomytes, Byzantine general (strategos) of the ThracesianTheme, inflicts a severe defeat on the Cretan Saracens. He leads a Byzantine...
a member of the Skleros clan, became strategos of Lykandos, of the ThracesianTheme and finally domestikos ton scholon for a short time in 944–945, before...
Byzantine period, the city was part of the ThracesianTheme, and from the time of Leo VI the Wise (r. 886–912) of the Theme of Samos. 7th-century sources attest...
Anatolic Theme. On 19 July, Bardanes was proclaimed emperor by the assembled troops of the Anatolic, Opsician, Thracesian and Bucellarian themes. Crucially...
Danube, and starts settling Christian Armenians and Syrians in the ThracesianTheme. In response, Kormisosh, ruler (khagan) of the Bulgarian Empire, demands...
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