Lucania (theme)
| Theme of Lucania | |
|---|---|
Theme of the Byzantine Empire | |
| c. 968 – 1050s | |
 Map of Byzantine themes in Italy (yellow) c. 1000. | |
| Capital | Tursi |
| Historical era | Middle Ages |
• Reorganization of Byzantine Italy | c. 968 |
| 1050s | |
Lucania was a Byzantine province (theme) in southern Italy that was probably established c. 968, under Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas.[1]
History
It was situated between the two older Byzantine provinces of Longobardia in the east and Calabria in the west, and was formed to encompass the areas in the mostly Lombard-populated theme of Longobardia where Byzantine Greeks from Calabria had settled in the early 10th century (the regions of Latinianon, Lagonegro and Mercurion).
The Lucania Theme lasted nearly one hundred years: from 968 to 1050 AD. It was fully conquered by the
The province corresponds roughly to the modern Italian region of Basilicata.
Notes
See also
- Catapanate of Italy
- Mercurion (a territory situated along the Calabrian-Lucanian border)
Sources
- Loud, G.A. (2000). "Southern Italy in the tenth century". In ISBN 978-1-13905572-7.
- Guillou, André (1965). "La Lucanie byzantine: Étude de géographie historique". Byzantion (in French). 35: 119–149.
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