Cappadocia (theme)

Theme of Cappadocia Καππαδοκία, θέμα Καππαδοκίας, θέμα Καππαδοκῶν
Theme of the Byzantine Empire
c. 830–1070s
The Asian themes of the Byzantine Empire c. 842.
Capital		Koron
Historical era		Middle Ages
•	Establishment as a theme	c. 830
•	Fall to the Seljuks.	1070s
Today part of		Turkey

The Theme of Cappadocia (Greek: θέμα Καππαδοκίας) 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.

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.

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.

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