Lykandos
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Lykandos or Lycandus (), known as Djahan in Armenian, was the name of a Byzantine fortress and military-civilian province (or "theme"), known as the Theme of Lykandos (θέμα Λυκανδοῦ), in the 10th–11th centuries.
Key facts
- Former Subdivision.conventional_long_name
- Theme of Lykandos
- Former Subdivision.common_name
- Lykandos
- Former Subdivision.subdivision
- Theme
- Former Subdivision.nation
- the Byzantine Empire
- Former Subdivision.era
- Middle Ages
- Former Subdivision.capital
- Lykandos fortress
- Former Subdivision.image_map
- Theme-lycandus 1000ad.png
- Former Subdivision.image_map_caption
- Map of the Theme of Lykandos within the Byzantine Empire in 1000 AD.
- Former Subdivision.life_span
- 903–1070s
- Former Subdivision.year_start
- 903
- Former Subdivision.event_start
- Arrival of Melias
- Former Subdivision.date_event1
- before 916
- Former Subdivision.event1
- Elevation to theme
- Former Subdivision.year_end
- after 1071
- Former Subdivision.event_end
- Fall to the Seljuks
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1071-00-00
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- Origin and early history
- History of Lykandos as a theme
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Lykandos or Lycandus (), known as Djahan in Armenian, was the name of a Byzantine fortress and military-civilian province (or "theme"), known as the Theme of Lykandos (θέμα Λυκανδοῦ), in the 10th–11th centuries.
==History== ===Origin and early history === The fortress of Lykandos was located in the area of modern Elbistan in southeastern Turkey, on the Antitaurus Mountains. It emerged as a major fortified military centre on the eastern Byzantine frontier under Emperor Leo VI the Wise (), through the actions of the Armenian leader Mleh (Melias in Greek sources), who settled there in 903, establishing a quasi-autonomous lordship. The area was of critical strategic importance, lying directly on the frontier zone between the Byzantines and the Muslim border emirates of Syria and Upper Mesopotamia, and commanding one of the principal routes through the mountains into Byzantine Anatolia.