The settlement of the Mardaites and their military-administrative position in the themata of the West: A chronology
Journal: Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta
Year: 2017

The paper discusses questions about the chronology of the settlement of Mardaite soldiers in the Balkans and their military-administrative position in the themata of the West: Peloponnesus, Cephalonia and Nicopolis. It presents arguments in favor of the hypothesis of the Mardaite settlement in Peloponnesus as the result of the colonization policy of Nicepho?rus I in the early 9th century. This view largely rests on information contained in the Chronicle of Monemvasia, a source hereto unused in d