The Theme of Cappadocia was a Byzantine theme (a military-civilian province) encompassing the southern portion of the namesake region from the early 9th to the late 11th centuries. Location The theme comprised most of the late antique Roman province of Cappadocia Secunda and parts of Cappadocia Prima. By the early 10th century, it was bounded to the northwest by the Bucellarian Theme, roughly along the line of the Lake Tatta and Mocissus; the Armeniac Theme and later Charsianon to the north, across the river Halys, and to the northeast near Caesarea and the fortress of Rodentos; to the south by the Taurus Mountains and the border with the Caliphate's lands and the Thughur frontier zone in Cilicia; and to the east with the Anatolic Theme, the boundary stretching across Lycaonia from the area of Heraclea Cybistra to Tatta. History Lying directly north of the Cilician Gates, the Arabs' major invasion route into Asia Minor, the region of Cappadocia suffered greatly from their repeated raids, with its towns and fortresses regularly sacked and the country widely devastated and depopulated. The cities of Tyana, Heraclea Cybistra and Faustinopolis had all been razed by the Arabs in the early 9th century, and although Cybistra was rebuilt, the populations of the other two cities fled to the fortresses of Nigde and Loulon respectively. Initially, the later theme was a tourma (division) of the Anatolic Theme. To counter the Arab threat, it was detached as a separate frontier march (a kleisoura) and eventually raised to a full theme. It is first attested as such in 830. According to the Muslim geographers Ibn Khordadbeh and Ibn al-Faqih, the province was heavily fortified with over twenty towns and fortresses, and had a garrison of 4,000 men in the 9th century. The theme was also the site of no less than three imperial aplekta, large camps that served as assembly points for the thematic armies during campaigns: Koloneia, Caesarea, and Bathys Ryax. Its strategos, whose seat was probably the fortress of Koron (modern Çömlekçi), and perhaps Tyana at a later stage, drew an annual salary of 20 pounds of gold, and usually held the rank of protospatharios, with a few rising as far as patrikios.

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The Theme of Cappadocia was a Byzantine theme (a military-civilian province) encompassing the southern portion of the namesake region from the early 9th to the late 11th centuries. Location The theme comprised most of the late antique Roman province of Cappadocia Secunda and parts of Cappadocia Prima. By the early 10th century, it was bounded to the northwest by the Bucellarian Theme, roughly along the line of the Lake Tatta and Mocissus; the Armeniac Theme and later Charsianon to the north, across the river Halys, and to the northeast near Caesarea and the fortress of Rodentos; to the south by the Taurus Mountains and the border with the Caliphate's lands and the Thughur frontier zone in Cilicia; and to the east with the Anatolic Theme, the boundary stretching across Lycaonia from the area of Heraclea Cybistra to Tatta. History Lying directly north of the Cilician Gates, the Arabs' major invasion route into Asia Minor, the region of Cappadocia suffered greatly from their repeated raids, with its towns and fortresses regularly sacked and the country widely devastated and depopulated. The cities of Tyana, Heraclea Cybistra and Faustinopolis had all been razed by the Arabs in the early 9th century, and although Cybistra was rebuilt, the populations of the other two cities fled to the fortresses of Nigde and Loulon respectively. Initially, the later theme was a tourma (division) of the Anatolic Theme. To counter the Arab threat, it was detached as a separate frontier march (a kleisoura) and eventually raised to a full theme. It is first attested as such in 830. According to the Muslim geographers Ibn Khordadbeh and Ibn al-Faqih, the province was heavily fortified with over twenty towns and fortresses, and had a garrison of 4,000 men in the 9th century. The theme was also the site of no less than three imperial aplekta, large camps that served as assembly points for the thematic armies during campaigns: Koloneia, Caesarea, and Bathys Ryax. Its strategos, whose seat was probably the fortress of Koron (modern Çömlekçi), and perhaps Tyana at a later stage, drew an annual salary of 20 pounds of gold, and usually held the rank of protospatharios, with a few rising as far as patrikios.

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The Theme of Cappadocia was a Byzantine theme (a military-civilian province) encompassing the southern portion of the namesake region from the early 9th to the late 11th centuries.

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