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 1  3,14|           as the beginning of the theme (province or district) organization,
 2  4,1 |       Bithynia, a province in the theme of Opsikion, has survived
 3  4,4 |         Origin and development of Theme Organization~In Byzantine
 4  4,4 |          long time the Greek word theme (το θεμα) meant a military
 5  4,4 |          give much information on theme organization in the seventh
 6  4,4 |         the earlier period of the theme system, historians have
 7  4,4 |        The true precursors of the theme organization were the exarchates
 8  4,4 |   legislative act meant that each theme had its own history, sometimes
 9  4,4 |       research on each individual theme. Kulakovsky’s writings are
10  4,4 |          was purely military. The theme system, then, was merely
11  4,4 |   peninsula about the time of the theme formation, he said, they “
12  4,4 |           to the formation of the theme organization in Asia Minor
13  4,4 |          The fourth, the maritime theme, was intended as a defense
14  4,4 |       analogy exists between this theme organization and the militarization
15  4,4 |           Cibyraiot (Cibyrrhaeot) theme was called the drungarius (
16  4,4 |           of the strategus of the theme of Anatolici, Leo, a man
17  4,4 |  entrusted with wide power in the theme organization to emperor.~ ~ ~
18  5,3 |      completion of the provincial theme system which originated
19  5,3 |    strengthening the power of the theme strategus at the expense
20  5,3 |           III: (1) the Thracesian theme in the western part of Asia
21  5,3 |     western districts of the vast theme of the Anatolics and named
22  5,3 |      stationed there, and (2) the theme of the Bucellarians in the
23  5,3 |         part of the vast Opsician theme (Opsikion), which derived
24  5,3 |   decisive role of Leo III in the theme organization cannot be proved;
25  6,5 |      districts in the Crimea (the theme of Cherson) with Russia,
26  6,6 |        Longobardia. The Calabrian theme was all that was left of
27  6,6 |         left of the vast Sicilian theme because, through the fall
28  6,6 |    separated Longobardia from the theme of Kephallenia, or the Ionian
29  6,6 |        and made it an independent theme with its own strategus.
30  6,7 |         develop along the path of theme organization, discussed
31  6,7 |            including the Sicilian theme, part of which formed the
32  6,7 |          part of which formed the theme of Calabria in the tenth
33  6,7 |          themes included also the theme of Cherson (Korsun) in the
34  6,7 |     historical development of the theme organization, knowledge
35  6,7 |         not by the treasury.~ The theme organization had reached
36  6,8 |     Norman documents speak of the theme of Calabria, and indicate
37  6,8 |   Diogenes, the turmarchus of the theme of Anatolici, in Asia Minor,
38  7,1 | Dyrrachium, the chief city of the theme of Dyrrachium, which had
39  7,4 |       sign of the times. The main theme of the treatise is very
40  8,17|           use the Byzantine term, theme organization may also furnish
41  9,2 |   possessions in the Crimea — the theme of Cherson (Korsun) with
42  9,9 |       Empire, took a new and vast theme to describe — “the extraordinary
43  9,17|         there.~ The provincial or theme organization had been broken
44  9,17|        title of the governor of a theme, strategus, wholly disappeared
45  9,17|       title of dux.[310] The term theme has sometimes been used