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dating to 1198, "Thrace and Macedonia" appear as a single territorial entity describing all of Thrace, but it was subdivided into smaller units centred on the major cities. The core area of the old theme of Macedonia was recorded as the "province of
279:("single-general", placed in command over two or more themes) of Thrace and Macedonia already in 801/802. Its creation came in the aftermath of a series of military successes that had extended Byzantine reach over most of the wider region of 224:
in the hinterland of Thessaloniki. Despite these temporary successes, the rule in the region was far from stable. The Empire instead resorted to withdraw its defense-line south along the Aegean coast, until the late 8th century.
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Being derived from the theme of Thrace, Macedonia was counted among the "Eastern" themes, which ranked higher in Byzantine hierarchy than the "Western" themes. In the late 9th and 10th centuries, its
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during the 7th century. In the late 7th century, the Byzantines organized a massive expedition against the Slavs in the area. They subdued many Slavic tribes and established a new
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As with other themes, at least some of the administrative posts of Macedonia were sometimes combined with those of Thrace, especially in the 11th century, where numerous
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of Adrianople. However, the theme of Macedonia was attested again in 1006/7, and there is some sigillographic evidence to support its continued existence alongside the
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Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Volume 1: Italy, North of the Balkans, North of the Black Sea
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ranked in the second tier of thematic governors, above even that of Thrace. He received an annual salary of 36 pounds of gold (2,592
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established between the late 8th century and the early 9th century. Byzantine Macedonia had limited geographical relation to the
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of Macedonia, was split off sometime in the early 9th century, taking some 2,000 men (according to the estimate of historian
314:(r. 976–1025), the theme of Macedonia ceased being a border theme; to its north, it was bounded by new provinces centred on 1787: 1762: 1937: 1651: 283:, and was probably intended to make imperial control more efficient by entrusting the greatly expanded territory to two 1952: 17: 1470: 836: 821: 744: 719: 394:(wrote c. 903), whose accounts are a major source on the Byzantine themes, mentioned that the theme of Macedonia ( 1621: 1435: 1804: 1683: 1121: 710: 469: 463:), and, according to the account of Ibn al-Faqih, in the late 9th century controlled 5,000 troops. A number of 296:
of c. 975 has led to the supposition that it may have been abolished and subsumed into the command of the new
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As a consequence, a new theme called Macedonia was created between 789 (or 797) and 801/802 by the Empress
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soldiers were also permanently stationed in the theme. Strymon, which was originally a
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Thrace and Macedonia were counted among the Eastern themes for hierarchical purposes
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Little is known of the provincial organization in the 12th century. In an imperial
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Tabula Imperii Byzantini, Band 6: Thrakien (Thrakē, Rodopē und Haimimontos)
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of Adrianople. In the late 10th century, as a result of the conquests of
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to the north. In later days, to the west it bounded the theme of
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Although the theme was attested in the 960s, its absence in the
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States and territories disestablished in the 11th century
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From the beginning of the 6th century, the former Roman
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Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki
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States and territories established in the 8th century
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Various times in late 10th and early 11th centuries
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Gregory), pp. 2079–2080. 68: 809: 785: 664: 640: 574: 561: 537: 434:(r. 867–886) hailed from Thrace, and the 2126:11th-century disestablishments in Europe 756:Constantino Porfirogenito: De Thematibus 440: 1711:Battle of the Olive Grove of Kountouras 762: 753: 652: 628: 613: 589: 585: 583: 549: 504: 502: 322:, while to its south, the new theme of 14: 2083: 2010:Monastery of Saint John the Theologian 348:provincia Adrianupoleos et Didimotichi 1466:Byzantine bureaucracy and aristocracy 1110: 840: 521: 519: 517: 398:) extended from the "Long Wall" (the 2121:8th-century establishments in Europe 1136: 580: 499: 176:) was a military-civilian province ( 30:For other uses of "Macedonia", see 24: 711:The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium 514: 25: 2142: 1800:Siege of Thessalonica (1422–1430) 1778:Byzantine–Genoese War (1348–1349) 1471:Byzantine scholars in Renaissance 832: 445:Approximate widest extent of the 1788:Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 1763:Byzantine civil war of 1321–1328 813:Byzantium and Its Army, 284–1081 27:Province of the Byzantine Empire 1652:Siege of Thessalonica (676–678) 1436:Alexios Angelos Philanthropenos 704: 688: 634: 525: 2091:Themes of the Byzantine Empire 1805:Battle of the Echinades (1427) 1684:Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria 792:The Byzantine Revival, 780–842 677:Nesbitt & Oikonomides 1991 607: 602:Nesbitt & Oikonomides 1991 595: 567: 555: 543: 531: 509:Nesbitt & Oikonomides 1991 13: 1: 1895:Eastern Orthodox Christianity 1815:Ottoman conquest of the Morea 1728:Under the Palaiologos dynasty 1672:Byzantine reconquest of Crete 810:Treadgold, Warren T. (1995). 493: 2131:Geography of medieval Thrace 1733:Reconquest of Constantinople 1657:Siege of Patras (805 or 807) 1351:Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas 354:Geography and administration 265:, was mentioned in 813, but 252:of Thrace. 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Index

Theme of Macedonia
Macedonia (terminology)
Theme
Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Greece
Adrianople
Thrace
Turkey
Bulgaria
Greece
Greek
theme
Byzantine Empire
Ancient Macedonia
Southern Thrace
Adrianople
Diocese of Macedonia
Sklaviniai
Bulgars
Avars
theme of Thrace
Irene of Athens
theme of Thrace
Sigillographic
tourma
strategos
patrikios
John Aplakes
Theophanes the Confessor

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