In late 870s, the theme of Dalmatia (" thema Dalmatias ") was established, but with no real Byzantine authority.

The first and for a long time only maritime theme ( θέμα ναυτικόν, thema nautikon ) was the Theme of the Cibyrrhaeots (, thema Kibyrrhaiotōn ).

In the new military-administrative theme system, every major division, called a thema ( Greek: θέμα ), was further divided into tourmai, while each tourma was divided into moirai ( Greek: μοίραι ) or droungoi, which in turn were composed of several banda.

In the 10th century, it was given to the military commanders over several themata ( also known as katepano ), and in the late 11th century it became used for the governor of a thema.

Even after that however, the term eparchos remained in use until the 840s for the senior administrative official of each thema, under the governing strategos.

There were prōtonotarioi of the imperial notarioi ( secretaries of the court ), of the various sekreta or logothesia ( government ministries ), as well as for each thema or province.

The signal-like trombone thema, heard at the beginning after the two crescendo waves, constitutes a motto for the whole symphony.

Many for later Bruckner-symphonies typical elements, such as the cyclical penetration of all movements and especially the apotheosis at the coda of the finale, which ends with the trombone thema, are heard in the Third for the first time.

* The Theme of Sicily ( θέμα Σικελίας, thema Sikelias ) was responsible for Sicily and the imperial possessions in southwestern Italy ( Calabria ).

It has further been shown that, contrary to Ostrogorsky's conception of the themata being established from the outset as distinct, well-defined regions where a stratēgos held joint military and civil authority, the term thema originally seems to have referred exclusively to the armies themselves, and only in the later 7th or early 8th centuries did it come to be transferred to the districts where these armies were encamped as well.

Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos, the fourth emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century AD, referred to Asia Minor as East thema, " ανατολικόν θέμα " ( from the Greek words anatoli: east, thema: administrative division ), placing this region to the East of Byzantium, while Europe was lying to the West.

Gradually however, the civil functionaries assumed greater power, and by the late 10th century, the praitores ( or krites, " judges ") were placed at the head of the civil administration of a thema.

Along with other cultural monuments the 11th and 12th century churches of Western medieval thema Bulgaria are famous throughout the world, characterized by unique architecture and priceless frescoes and icons.

The Principality of Gothia or Theodoro formed after the Fourth Crusade out of parts of the Byzantine thema of Klimata which were not occupied by the Genoese.

The droungarios tou ploïmou ( Greek: ) was the commander of the central Imperial Fleet, based at and around Constantinople, while the provincial (" thematic ") fleets were also commanded by a droungarios ( although it was later replaced by the more exalted rank of strategos ), to whose title was added the name of the thema under his command, e. g. droungarios tōn Kibyrrhaiōtōn ( Greek:, one of the subordinate admirals of the Cibyrrhaeot Theme ).

The new imperial possessions in Apulia were added to it in the 870s, before they were made into a separate thema ( that of Longobardia ) in about 910.

The commanding domestikos of the Optimatoi was also the governor of the thema.

The very name thema is of uncertain etymology: it has been suggested that it came from the Chazar Turkic tūmān, " ten thousand men ", but most scholars follow Constantine Porphyrogennetos, who records that it originates from Greek thesis (" placement ").

* The Theme of Cephallenia ( θέμα Κεφαλληνίας, thema Kephallēnias ), controlling the Ionian Islands, was established in the mid-to late 8th century, to protect imperial communications with Italy and defend the Ionian Sea from Arab raids.

* The Theme of Paphlagonia ( θέμα Παφλαγονίας, thema Paphlagonias ) and the Theme of Chaldia (, thema Chaldias ) were split off from the Armeniac Theme in ca.

This thema variously included parts of Thrace and gave its name to the Macedonian dynasty.

Hence, Byzantine documents of this era that mention Macedonia are most probably referring to the Macedonian thema.

The Byzantine thema of Thrace.

– late 9th century ) was a secretary working under the Jie-du ( Traditional Chinese: 節度 ; Simplified Chinese: 节度 ; pinyin: jié dù ) ( similar to the Byzantine thema ) with headquarters located at Hanoi.

Since the thema was a front of the Tang Dynasty against Nanzhao, he was able to get his hands on the updated diplomatic and military documents of the two countries.

The themes or themata (; singular θέμα, thema ) were the main administrative divisions of the middle Byzantine Empire.

The term thema was ambiguous, referring both to a form of military tenure and to an administrative division.

From the 840s on, Nicomedia was the capital of the thema of the Optimatoi.

It initially formed a subdivision of the thema of Mesopotamia, but it was later ( ca.

Nevertheless, Leo continued to apply pressure on his eastern frontier, through the creation of the new thema of Mesopotamia, a Byzantine invasion of Armenia in 902 and the sacking of Theodosiopolis, as well as successful raids in the Arab Thughur.

Under the Empire, the territory of the Troad became part of the province of Asia ; under the later Byzantine Empire, it was included in the thema of the Aegean Islands.

Sticky partnered with Merrill Nisker in a live project called The Shit, and later extended the thema of Weeping Tile and The Wadds in a group called Ass Machine.

From the late 9th century, it was capital of the Byzantine thema of Nicopolis.

In the Komnenian period, the title of doux replaced altogether the strategos in designating the military official in charge of a thema.

Unlike the tagmata, it was garrisoned outside Constantinople and closely associated with its garrison area: the thema Optimatōn, which lay across Constantinople and comprised northern Bithynia.

Martineau's ministerial career was suddenly cut short in 1832 by difficulties growing out of the " regium donum ", which had on the death of the senior minister fallen to him.

Rees in 1837 was appointed by government as principal receiver of the English regium donum, on the nomination of the three denominations.

Provincial flower is the Yellow Cotton Tree ( Cochlospermum regium ), provincial tree is Neem ( Azadirachta indica v. siamensis ).

In 1625 Schickard, a Christian Hebraist, published an influential treatise, Mishpat ha-melek, Jus regium Hebraeorum ( Title in both Hebrew and Latin: The King's Law ) in which he uses the Talmud and rabbinical literature to analyze ancient Hebrew political theory.

In 1806 he was appointed distributor of the English regium donum.

( c ) The kingly office ( munus regium ), whereby Christ founded his kingdom, defends his church against all enemies, and rules all things in heaven and on earth.