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Koloneia (theme), the Glossary

The Theme of Koloneia (θέμα Κολωνείας) was a small military-civilian province (thema or theme) of the Byzantine Empire located in northern Cappadocia and the southern Pontus, in modern Turkey.^[1]

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Byzantine Cappadocia
States and territories disestablished in the 1070s
States and territories established in the 9th century
Themes of the Byzantine Empire

Al-Masudi

al-Masʿūdī (full name, أبو الحسن علي بن الحسين بن علي المسعودي), –956, was a historian, geographer and traveler.

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Arabs

The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.

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The Armeniac Theme (Ἀρμενιακόν, Armeniakoi), more properly the Theme of the Armeniacs (Greek: θέμα Ἀρμενιακῶν, thema Armeniakōi), was a Byzantine theme (a military-civilian province) located in northeastern Asia Minor (modern Turkey). Koloneia (theme) and Armeniac Theme are States and territories disestablished in the 1070s and themes of the Byzantine Empire.

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Şebinkarahisar

Şebinkarahisar is a town in Giresun Province in the Black Sea region of northeastern Turkey.

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Battle of Manzikert

The Battle of Manzikert or Malazgirt was fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Empire on 26 August 1071 near Manzikert, theme of Iberia (modern Malazgirt in Muş Province, Turkey).

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Cappadocia

Cappadocia (Kapadokya, Greek: Καππαδοκία) is a historical region in Central Anatolia, Turkey.

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Chaldia

Chaldia (Χαλδία, Khaldia) was a historical region located in the mountainous interior of the eastern Black Sea, northeast Anatolia (modern Turkey). Koloneia (theme) and Chaldia are themes of the Byzantine Empire.

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Constantine VII

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (Kōnstantinos Porphyrogennētos; 17 May 905 – 9 November 959) was the fourth Byzantine emperor of the Macedonian dynasty, reigning from 6 June 913 to 9 November 959.

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De Administrando Imperio

("On the Governance of the Empire") is the Latin title of a Greek-language work written by the 10th-century Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine VII.

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Divriği

Divriği, historically Tephrike (Greek: Τεφρική), is a town in Sivas Province of Turkey.

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Dux

Dux (ducēs) is Latin for "leader" (from the noun dux, ducis, "leader, general") and later for duke and its variant forms (doge, duce, etc.). During the Roman Republic and for the first centuries of the Roman Empire, dux could refer to anyone who commanded troops, both Roman generals and foreign leaders, but was not a formal military rank.

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Erzincan

Erzincan (script), historically Yerznka (Երզնկա), is the capital of Erzincan Province in eastern Turkey.

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Isaac I Komnenos

Isaac I Komnenos or Comnenus (Ἰσαάκιος Κομνηνός, Isaakios Komnēnos; – 1 June 1060) was Byzantine emperor from 1057 to 1059, the first reigning member of the Komnenian dynasty.

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Katakalon Kekaumenos

Katakalon Kekaumenos (Κατακαλὼν Κεκαυμένος) was a prominent Byzantine general of the mid-11th century.

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Kemah, Erzincan

Kemah (Kemax), known historically as Ani-Kamakh (Անի-Կամախ), Gamakh, Kamacha or Kamachon (Κάμαχα, Κάμαχον) is a town in Erzincan Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey.

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Kleisoura (Byzantine district)

In the Byzantine Empire, a kleisoura (κλεισούρα, "enclosure, defile") was a term traditionally applied to a fortified mountain pass and the military district protecting it.

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Leo VI the Wise

Leo VI, also known as Leo the Wise (Léōn ho Sophós, 19 September 866 – 11 May 912), was Byzantine Emperor from 886 to 912.

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Mesopotamia (theme)

Mesopotamia (Μεσοποταμία) was the name of a Byzantine theme (a military-civilian province) located in what is today eastern Turkey. Koloneia (theme) and Mesopotamia (theme) are States and territories disestablished in the 1070s, States and territories established in the 9th century and themes of the Byzantine Empire.

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Nicopolis (Armenia)

Nicopolis (Νικόπολις,; Նիկոպոլիս) was a Roman colony in Lesser Armenia founded by Pompey in 63 BC after conquering the Kingdom of Pontus in the Third Mithridatic War.

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Nikolaos Oikonomides

Nikolaos or Nikos Oikonomides (Νικόλαος Οικονομίδης, 14 February 1934 – 31 May 2000) was a Greek Byzantinist, and one of the leading experts in the field of Byzantine administration.

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Niksar

Niksar, historically known as Neocaesarea (Νεοκαισάρεια), is a city in Tokat Province, Turkey.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia.

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Pontus (region)

Pontus or Pontos (translit) is a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in the modern-day eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey.

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Robert Crispin

Robert Crispin (Crépin, died 1072), called Frankopoulos, was a Norman mercenary who fought in the Reconquista and the Byzantine Empire.

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Sayf al-Dawla

ʿAlī ibn ʾAbū'l-Hayjāʾ ʿAbdallāh ibn Ḥamdān ibn Ḥamdūn ibn al-Ḥārith al-Taghlibī (علي بن أبو الهيجاء عبد الله بن حمدان بن الحارث التغلبي, 22 June 916 – 8 February 967), more commonly known simply by his honorific of Sayf al-Dawla (سيف الدولة), was the founder of the Emirate of Aleppo, encompassing most of northern Syria and parts of the western Jazira.

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Seljuk dynasty

The Seljuk dynasty, or Seljukids (سلجوقیان Saljuqian, alternatively spelled as Seljuqs or Saljuqs), Seljuqs, also known as Seljuk Turks, Seljuk Turkomans "The defeat in August 1071 of the Byzantine emperor Romanos Diogenes by the Turkomans at the battle of Malazgirt (Manzikert) is taken as a turning point in the history of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire." or the Saljuqids, was an Oghuz Turkic, Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became Persianate and contributed to Turco-Persian culture in West Asia and Central Asia.

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Spatharios

The spatharii or spatharioi (singular: spatharius; σπαθάριος, literally "spatha-bearer") were a class of Late Roman imperial bodyguards in the court in Constantinople in the 5th–6th centuries, later becoming a purely honorary dignity in the Byzantine Empire.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koloneia_(theme)

Koloneia (theme), the Glossary

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See also

Byzantine Cappadocia

States and territories disestablished in the 1070s

States and territories established in the 9th century

Themes of the Byzantine Empire

References