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 1  3,14|            the so-called system of themes. The Byzantine authorities
 2  4,1 |            to Opsikion, one of the themes of Asia Minor. One part
 3  4,4 |            the organization of the themes is usually connected with
 4  4,4 |            The organization of the themes means that peculiar provincial
 5  4,4 |       source on the problem of the themes is the work On Themes, written
 6  4,4 |          the themes is the work On Themes, written by Constantine
 7  4,4 |             not yet referred to as themes, but denoted by the Latin
 8  4,4 |             90]~ The fact that the themes were not the result of one
 9  4,4 |           problem of the origin of themes can be solved only by special
10  4,4 |            districts, later called themes: 1) Armeniaci (Armeniakoi)
11  4,4 |      exceptions these districts or themes were governed by strategi (
12  4,4 |            The organization of the themes, then, may be traced back
13  4,4 |            districts (later called themes) against the Arabs. Simultaneously
14  5,2 |            Porphyrogenitus, On the Themes, refer also to the days
15  5,3 |       Isaurian emperors.[53]~ ~The themes. — The majority of scholars,
16  5,3 |      geographical arrangement into themes … was reorganized by Leo
17  5,3 |             There exists a list of themes with some references to
18  5,3 |          data with the data on the themes of the seventh century,
19  5,3 |           in addition to the three themes of the seventh century,
20  5,3 |           seventh century, two new themes were created in the eighth
21  5,3 |        century Asia Minor had five themes, to which the sources pertaining
22  5,3 |         refer as the “five eastern themes” (for instance, under the
23  5,3 |          question of the number of themes in Asia Minor in the early
24  5,3 |         extension of the system of themes under the Isaurian dynasty
25  5,3 |           The formation of the new themes by dividing the immense
26  5,3 |         territories of the earlier themes was dictated by political
27  5,8 |        excepting the troops of two themes. Under his standards, according
28  6,6 |        Italy were divided into two themes: Calabria and Longobardia.
29  6,6 |         advance into the Byzantine themes of Italy ceased for a long
30  6,7 |           breaking up of the older themes and consequently in the
31  6,7 |          increase in the number of themes, and, on the other hand,
32  6,7 |       elevating to the position of themes districts which previously
33  6,7 |          as the true precursors of themes, had become alienated from
34  6,7 |           not yet bear the name of themes. At the beginning of the
35  6,7 |       ninth century there were ten themes: five Asiatic, four European,
36  6,7 |         that not all of these were themes. Among them were included
37  6,7 | Porphyrogenitus, lists twenty-five themes.[135] In his work Concerning
38  6,7 |             In his work Concerning Themes (tenth century), Constantine
39  6,7 |        gives a list of twenty-nine themes: seventeen Asiatic, including
40  6,7 |             including the four sea themes, and twelve European, including
41  6,7 |        proper. The twelve European themes included also the theme
42  6,7 |        before 921-927 gives thirty themes.[136] In the eleventh century
43  6,7 |           changes in the number of themes, and because of the lack
44  6,7 |          by being transformed into themes.~ The strategi who stood
45  6,7 |           stood at the head of the themes had a large body of subordinates.
46  6,7 |            strategi of the eastern themes, including the sea themes,
47  6,7 |          themes, including the sea themes, were receiving definite
48  6,7 |            strategi of the western themes were supported by the revenues
49  6,8 |            strategus of one of the themes in Asia Minor, Nicephorus
50  6,8 |         also in his third work, On Themes, based partly on geographical
51  7,4 |           elements supplied by the themes. Under the Comneni there
52  7,4 |     eleventh century the number of themes reached thirty-eight. The
53  7,4 |       century.~ Most of the former themes had been governed by military
54  7,4 |            governor general of the themes towards the end of the eleventh
55  7,4 |            his “pitiful poverty of themes” and the “disgusting external
56  9,18|            of the most fascinating themes for the historian interested