Talk:Theme (Byzantine district)

message: I believe the normal English term for these administrative units is "theme", not "thema".  The OED has both headwords, but only under "theme" does it mention the Byzantine administrative unit.  Therefore, I believe this article should be moved to 'theme', and the term 'thema'/'themata' in the body of the article should be replaced by 'theme'/'themes'.  Of course, the Greek term should be mentioned. --Macrakis 01:50, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The current title should be fine. —Nightstallion (?) 09:39, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Currently both themes and themata points to other articles with no links here. Fornadan (t) 11:24, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed move: Thema to Theme (Byzantium)

message: *Well, could we put something else in the brackets, like "(Byzantine Empire)"? Adam Bishop 03:49, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The current title should be fine. —Nightstallion (?) 09:39, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Currently both themes and themata points to other articles with no links here. Fornadan (t) 11:24, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: Shouldn't something about the later history of the themes be added to this article? For example, what about the demise of the theme system? What about the emperor Manuel I's creation of Neocastra in the twelfth century? How did the theme system fuction, if at all in the later years of the empire? These are questions which I would like to know the answers to, and it seems that this page would be a good place to deal with these issues. I can't find much information on this myself, so if others have any knowledge that relates to this, put it in! It would really improve this article, as at the moment it looks a bit half-finished. Bigdaddy1204 15:33, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: What about the later history of the themes?

message: The current parenthetical classification is excessive, unnecessarily wordy. Unless "Theme" is also, unlikely, the name of a different kind of administrative unit in the Byzantine empire, then it should be changed to one of the above two names. The name used for previous move was not, contrary to its edit summary, mentioned on the Talk page; other, shorter names were proposed. —Centrx→talk • 23:04, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem with "Theme (Byzantium)" is that it might just as well refer to artistic themes  or philosophical topics.  "Theme (administrative unit)" is I suppose OK. I can't get too excited about this one way or another. --Macrakis 23:55, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

text: I don't like "(Byzantium)" because it sounds like it would refer to the ancient city. Adam Bishop 04:11, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving to Theme (Byzantium) or Theme (Byzantine empire) 

message: There seems to be nothing about the non-Anatolian subdivisions of the Byzantine empire. AnonMoos 13:33, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: When the theme system was established, Anatolia was the only land left untouched, so these themes may have remained with Anatolian names. The rest of the empire was divided into Themese too. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.152.173.183 (talk) 19:30, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-Anatolian?

message: Both of htese subsectison should be merged as they both (save for the table) indicate the locations of the original 5 themes. They are essentialy the same sectiosn with diffrent a diffrent emphasis. As well the Organisation seems to be more of a disposition of the Themes rather than the actual organisation (administration and roles) of the themes.--Dryzen 19:56, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins-organisation 

message: Hmmm Tobias Conradi, I would like to ask you why the arbitrary move? You've taken no part in the discussion and you arrive and move it without evne having the decency of leaving a note nor giving an explination. You also seem to have taken the liberty of moving many other articles to this style without acknowledging there own editor's thoughts on the subject first.I am severly tempted to revert the move, simply to bring you to the table to discuss the move.--Dryzen 15:21, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I gone and done the reseach, :Category: subnational entities as been deemed unsuitably nammed for its origina purpose therefore :Category:country subdivisions will be replacing it. No contention here anymore. But the drive by move of the article is still a sore spot, more so when the wiki-editors where already ahving the discussion a few sections above.--Dryzen 15:46, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like no one is defending the Move, so what do we do about it then?--Dryzen 13:56, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just moved it back. Adam Bishop 15:05, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A move? 

message: :Category:Themes of the Byzantine Empire is itself a category within :Category:Government of the Byzantine Empire. — Robert Greer (talk) 17:08, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:Government of the Byzantine Empire]] ''vs.'' [[:Category:Themes of the Byzantine Empire]]  

message: For example, change thema Aigaiou to Thema Aigaiou. It feels strange when Θ is capitalized, however Romanized t is not.  --Qijiang ok (talk) 08:52, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should we capitalize thema name? 

message: According to the author of this article, "The very name thema is of uncertain etymology, but most scholars follow Constantine Porphyrogennetos, who records that it originates from Greek thesis ("placement")".
We don't need Porphyrogennetos to ascertain whether the word "thema" is of Greek origin or not. Just open the Liddell-Scott lexicon:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aalphabetic+letter%3D*q%3Aentry+group%3D8%3Aentry%3Dqe%2Fma  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ντουβισνός (talk • contribs) 07:38, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uncertain etymology? 

message: In the first paragraph, before discussing Maurice' reforms, the article talks about Sasanian pressure in Syria, Egypt, etc., which actually occurred sometime after Maurice. --Z 10:57, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mistake in the Background section?