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Hellas (theme)
| Theme of Hellas Ἑλλάς, Ἑλλάδα, θέμα Ἑλλάδος | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Theme of the Byzantine Empire | |||||||||||||||||||
| 687/695 – 1205 | |||||||||||||||||||
&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Byzantine_Greece_ca_900_AD.svg) Map of Byzantine Greece c. 900, with the themes and major settlements. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Capital | Athens or Thebes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||||||||||
• Established | 687/695 | ||||||||||||||||||
• Dissolution into smaller districts | 12th century | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1205 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Greece | ||||||||||||||||||
The Theme of Hellas (Greek: θέμα Ἑλλάδος, Thema Hellados) was a Byzantine military-civilian province (thema, theme) located in southern Greece. The theme encompassed parts of Central Greece, Thessaly and, until c. 800, the Peloponnese peninsula. It was established in the late 7th century, and was broken up into smaller districts in the late 11th/early 12th century. The theme fell to the Crusader army led by Boniface of Montferrat in 1205.
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