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    The themes or thémata (Greek: θέματα, thémata, singular: θέμα, théma) were the main military and administrative divisions of the middle Byzantine Empire...
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  • Themata is the debut full-length album by the Australian rock band Karnivool. The album was released independently on 7 February 2005, and was distributed...
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    wrote the tracks for Karnivool's first album Themata and he stated that they played songs from Themata together as a band only after it was recorded...
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  • "Themata" is a song by Australian rock band Karnivool. It was released in July 2005 as the third and final single from their debut album Themata, following...
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  • Album. The album follows a four-year gap since their debut studio album Themata in 2005. Sound Awake was produced by Forrester Savell (The Butterfly Effect...
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    fiscal reforms. His administrative reforms included re-organisation of the themata. He survived a civil war in 803 and, like most of the Byzantine emperors...
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    smaller themata and of the professional regiments (tagmata) of the Byzantine army (as opposed to the largely militia-like forces of most themata). In the...
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    The tagmata recruited from the larger themata were probably 1,000 men strong, while those from the smaller themata may have numbered ca. 500 men. Foreign...
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  • vowel [y] (ü) and not the semivowel [j] or the vowels [i] or [I]. The Themata were combined Military and Administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire...
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    being organised separately. The Empire was divided into districts called themata at the end of the eight century, governed by a military commander called...
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    territory stopped. The themata provided a bulwark against Arab invasions and raids that lasted until the late 11th century. Themata were also formed in the...
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  • border eastwards, and its defense radically restructured, with smaller themata grouped in five large regional commands headed by a doux and a heavy presence...
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  • Dioceses Provinces Quaestura exercitus Exarchate of Ravenna Exarchate of Africa Middle Themata Kleisourai Bandon Catepanates Late Kephale Despotates...
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    Douk, Kephalai or Exarch each acting as viceroys in their respective "thémata" or governorships, all being appointed by the sovereign directly. These...
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    640s, the surviving field armies and their commanders formed the first themata. Supreme military commanders sometimes also took this title in early medieval...
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    Dioceses Provinces Quaestura exercitus Exarchate of Ravenna Exarchate of Africa Middle Themata Kleisourai Bandon Catepanates Late Kephale Despotates...
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  • governors of some of the more peripheral provinces, inferior in status to the themata: Dalmatia, Cephalonia, Crete and Cyprus. Archontes were also placed in...
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  • cooperation with US". Outlook India. 11 January 2020. https://www.protagon.gr/themata/oi-patriarxes-o-poutin-to-oros-kai-o-velopoulos-44342916976 https://www...
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    assistance from the Bulgars. He in turn faced rebellion from two other themata, Anatolikon and Armeniakon in 717, and chose to resign, being succeeded...
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  • Deftones "Change (Part 1)", by Australian band Karnivool from the album Themata "Change (Part 2)", by Australian band Karnivool from the album Sound Awake...
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  • the indemonstrables through the use of four ground rules or themata. Of these four themata, only two have survived. One, the so-called first thema, was...
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  • Palace of Blachernae Domestikos of the themata Domestikos of the eastern themata Domestikos of the western themata Megas myrtaïtes Protokomes Papias Droungarios...
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  • kephalatíkion). In size, these provinces were small compared to the earlier themata, and could range from a few villages surrounding the kephale's seat (a...
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    specific meaning. The reconquered frontier zones were divided into smaller themata, and grouped together to form large regional commands, headed either by...
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  • the provinces ('outer', i.e. outside Constantinople). The epoptai of the themata (ἐπόπται τῶν θεμάτων), who were the officials charged with control of taxation...
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    Dioceses Provinces Quaestura exercitus Exarchate of Ravenna Exarchate of Africa Middle Themata Kleisourai Bandon Catepanates Late Kephale Despotates...
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  • Dioceses Provinces Quaestura exercitus Exarchate of Ravenna Exarchate of Africa Middle Themata Kleisourai Bandon Catepanates Late Kephale Despotates...
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