The theme of Iberia was an administrative and military unit – theme – within the Byzantine Empire carved by the Byzantine Emperors out of several Armenian and Georgian lands in the eleventh century. It was formed as a result of Emperor Basil II’s annexation of a portion of the Georgian Bagratid domains (1000-1021) and later aggrandized at the expense of several Armenian kingdoms acquired by the Byzantines in a piecemeal fashion in the course of the eleventh century.

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  • The theme of Iberia was an administrative and military unit – theme – within the Byzantine Empire carved by the Byzantine Emperors out of several Armenian and Georgian lands in the eleventh century. It was formed as a result of Emperor Basil II’s annexation of a portion of the Georgian Bagratid domains (1000-1021) and later aggrandized at the expense of several Armenian kingdoms acquired by the Byzantines in a piecemeal fashion in the course of the eleventh century. The population of the theme was multiethnic with the Armenian majority, including a sizable Armenian community of Chalcedonic rite to which the contemporary Byzantines expanded, as a denominational name, the ethnonym "Iberian", a Graeco-Roman designation of Georgians. The theme ceased to exist in 1074 AD as a result of the Seljuk invasions.
  • Le duché d'Ibérie (en grec θέμα 'Ιβηρίας) est une unité administrative et militaire de l'Empire byzantin, souvent improprement qualifiée de « thème ». Fondé dès 1001 ou en 1025/1027, il est le résultat des conquêtes de l'empereur Basile II sur les terres des Bagratides géorgiens de 1000 à 1021 (Tao, et se voit agrandi avec l'annexion des différents royaumes bagratides arméniens . Sa population est donc multiethnique, avec une majorité d'Arméniens, dont un nombre important de Chalcédoniens auxquels les Byzantins contemporains appliquent par extension l'ethnonyme « Ibères », la désignation gréco-romaine des Géorgiens. Le duché disparaît en 1074 en raison des invasions seldjoukides.
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  • The theme of Iberia was an administrative and military unit – theme – within the Byzantine Empire carved by the Byzantine Emperors out of several Armenian and Georgian lands in the eleventh century. It was formed as a result of Emperor Basil II’s annexation of a portion of the Georgian Bagratid domains (1000-1021) and later aggrandized at the expense of several Armenian kingdoms acquired by the Byzantines in a piecemeal fashion in the course of the eleventh century.
  • Le duché d'Ibérie (en grec θέμα 'Ιβηρίας) est une unité administrative et militaire de l'Empire byzantin, souvent improprement qualifiée de « thème ». Fondé dès 1001 ou en 1025/1027, il est le résultat des conquêtes de l'empereur Basile II sur les terres des Bagratides géorgiens de 1000 à 1021 (Tao, et se voit agrandi avec l'annexion des différents royaumes bagratides arméniens .
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  • Iberia (theme)
  • Ibérie (duché)
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