Paristrion

The redistribution of the territories in the Balkans that were recaptured by Ostrom.

The Byzantine theme Paristrion (Paradunavon) was a military-administrative border district that was formed around 1001 in the geographic region of Moesia (Danube Bulgaria) . The main place was Theodoroupolis (in antiquity Durostorum , today Silistra ). Other important cities were Odessos , Nicopolis and Tarnowo . The name of the district derives from the Greek and means on Nonoba located .

The topic emerged after the successful partial subjugation of the First Bulgarian Empire by the Byzantine Empire around 971, when the region once again known as the province of Moesia secunda was reintegrated into the Byzantine administrative system. Paristrion later bordered on the theme of Bulgaria, created in 1018, in the west and on the themes of Thrace and Macedonia in the south . Around 1072/1074 the region was the center of a rebellion by the Pechenegs under the Byzantine defector Nestor . After the restoration of the Bulgarian Empire in 1187 until the appearance of the Ottoman Turks, rule over the area frequently changed between Bulgarians and the equestrian peoples from the east.

swell

• Konstantin Porphyrogennetos : De thematibus, Lib. II.

literature

• Warren Treadgold: A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford University Press, Stanford CA 1997, ISBN 0-8047-2421-0 , pp. 421, 478, et passim .
• John VA Fine: The Early Medieval Balkans. A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor MI 1991, ISBN 0-472-08149-7 , p. 79.

Web links

• Publications on Paristrion in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii