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thema (provincia) dell'Impero bizantino

Key facts

Former Subdivision.conventional_long_name
Theme of the Optimatoi
Former Subdivision.common_name
Optimatoi
Former Subdivision.subdivision
Theme
Former Subdivision.nation
the Byzantine Empire
Former Subdivision.era
Middle Ages
Former Subdivision.capital
Nicomedia(modern-day İzmit, Kocaeli, Turkey)
Former Subdivision.image_map
Asia Minor ca 780 AD.svg
Former Subdivision.image_map_caption
Map of the administrative structure of the Byzantine Empire c. 780. The thema of the Optimatoi is located in the peninsula directly across the Bosporus, opposite Constantinople.
Former Subdivision.life_span
740s–12041240–15th century
Former Subdivision.year_start
744/745
Former Subdivision.date_event1
ca. 1204
Former Subdivision.event1
Latin conquest
Former Subdivision.date_event2
1240
Former Subdivision.event2
Byzantine recovery
Former Subdivision.year_end
15th century
Former Subdivision.event_end
Conquest by Ottomans

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
military unit
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Article · Italiano

Gli Optimatoi (in greco moderno: Ὀπτιμάτοι, dal latino Optimates, "gli uomini migliori") inizialmente formavano una unità militare bizantina di élite. A metà dell'VIII secolo, tuttavia, essi furono degradati a corpi di logistica e di rifornimento e fu loro assegnata una provincia (thema) nell'Asia Minore nord-occidentale, che prese il loro nome. Come unità amministrativa, il Thema degli Optimatoi (Greco: θέμα Ὀπτιμάτων, thema Optimatōn) sopravvisse fino alla conquista ottomana dei primi decenni del XIV secolo.

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