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Charsianon (Gr****: Χαρσιανόν) was the name of a
Byzantine fortress and the
corresponding theme (a military-civilian province) in the
region of Cappadocia...
- of the
Sangarios river. It is safe, however, to
consider the
region of
Charsianon as the
homeland of the family,
according to
evidence dating back to the...
- successful.
Muslim sources attribute to him the
capture of the
fortress of
Charsianon in September/October 730, but
Byzantine sources state that this was done...
- there. In the 9th–11th centuries, the
region comprised the
themes of
Charsianon with its
capital at the
eponymous city and Cappadocia,
which had first...
- Macedonian,
rising quickly to the
posts of
protostrator and then
governor of
Charsianon,
whence he
fought with
success against the Arabs. In c. 886 he led a major...
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Theme Armeniac Theme Bucellarian Theme Cappadocia (theme)
Chaldia Theme Charsianon Cibyrrhaeot Theme Cyprus (theme) (the
island could be
included in Asia...
- (Ἀργυροπουλίνα). The
Argyroi apparently originated in the
province of
Charsianon,
where they had
large estates. They
hence belonged to the
Anatolian land-holding...
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identical with the
tourma of
Kymbalaios in the
later Byzantine theme of
Charsianon. From 971-5
Kymbalaios was the seat of a
strategos whose task was probably...
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later served Byzantium. The
survivors thereafter taking abode in the
Charsianon region of
Byzantine Anatolia. The
geographer al-Istakhri
mentions the...
- Consequently, in the 9th
century it was
broken up: the
smaller provinces of
Charsianon and
Cappadocia were formed,
first as
kleisourai and
later as full themes...
