Anatolic Theme
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The Anatolic Theme, more properly known as the Theme of the Anatolics, was a Byzantine theme in central Asia Minor. From its establishment, it was the largest and senior-most of the themes, and its mi
Gold solidus of Leo III the Isaurian and his son, Constantine V
Polybotus
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Polybotus or Polybotos was a city in the Roman province of Phrygia Salutaris. Its site is located 3 miles southwest of Bolvadin in Asiatic Turkey.
Anatolic Theme
…The theme's capital was Amorium, until the sack of the city by the Abbasids in 838. After that, it was probably transferred to the nearby fortress of Polybotos. According to the 10th-century Arab geographers Qudama ibn Ja'far and Ibn al-Faqih, the Anatolic Theme, "the largest of the provinces of the Romans…
John, Bishop of Polybotum (Menologion of Basil II)