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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...
- 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...
- 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...
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Cappadocian themes and the
kleisourai (frontier districts) of
Seleukeia and
Charsianon; and a
western force under Petronas with men from the Macedonian, Thracian...
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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...
- (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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Theme Armeniac Theme Bucellarian Theme Cappadocia (theme)
Chaldia Theme Charsianon Cibyrrhaeot Theme Cyprus (theme) (the
island could be
included in Asia...
- also the
administrative centre as the
capital of the
Byzantine Theme of
Charsianon.
Though the city lost most of its
importance by the
tenth century, is...
- his son Eustathios,
active ca. 741. Leo
Argyros hailed from the area of
Charsianon, and
served as a
tourmarches under Emperor Michael III (reigned 842–867)...
- themes. In the 9th–11th centuries, the
region comprised the
themes of
Charsianon and Cappadocia.
Cappadocia shared an always-changing
relationship with...
