Macedonia (Byzantine theme)

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Macedonia (Byzantine theme) was a Byzantine military-administrative district in the Balkans that served as a key frontier province and later lent its name to the influential Macedonian dynasty.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Macedonia (Byzantine theme) canonical 1
Theme of Macedonia 1

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Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Byzantine administrative division
Byzantine theme
former military district
administrativeCentre Adrianople
administrativeLevel provincial-level theme
associatedWithDynasty Macedonian dynasty
borderedBy Theme of Strymon
Theme of Thrace
linked to: Thrace

Theme of Thrace (early period, overlapping definitions)
capital Adrianople
chronologicalContext post-Iconoclast Byzantine Empire
country Byzantine Empire
dissolvedInCentury 11th century
establishedAfter reforms of the Byzantine themata system
establishedInCentury 8th century
function defense of Byzantine Balkan frontier
local civil administration
geopoliticalFunction buffer against northern and western threats in the Balkans
governanceForm civil governorship under a strategos
military governorship
governedBy strategos of Macedonia
historicalEra Middle Byzantine period
historicalRegion Eastern Balkans
linked to: Balkans
influenced name of the Macedonian dynasty
languageOfAdministration Medieval Greek
linkedTo rise of the Macedonian dynasty in the 9th century
locatedIn Balkans
Thrace region
linked to: Thrace
militaryCommanderTitle strategos
militaryRole deployment area for Byzantine field and thematic troops
namedAfter Macedonia
linked to: Macedonia region
partOf Byzantine Thrace
linked to: Thrace

Byzantine themata system
predecessor earlier late Roman provincial structure in Thrace
relatedTo Theme of Strymon
Theme of Thrace
linked to: Thrace
religion Eastern Orthodox Christianity
role frontier province
military-administrative district
status defunct administrative unit
strategicImportance key frontier province in the Balkans
typeOfSubdivision theme
usedBy Byzantine civil administration
Byzantine military administration

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Macedonian dynasty namedAfter Macedonia (Byzantine theme)
Basil I birthPlace Theme of Macedonia
subject linked to: Byzantine Emperor Basil I
linked to: Macedonia (Byzantine theme)