The following is a list of regions ofAncient Anatolia, also known as "Asia Minor." The names reflect changes to languages, settlements and polities from theBronze Age to conquest byTurkic peoples.
Note: Over time the regions did not always were the same and had the same size or the same borders and sometimes included different subregions, districts, divisions or parts or were united with others.
The names of many regions ended in "e" [e] that was the Eastern Greek (AtticIonicAncient Greek) equivalent to the Western Greek (Doric Greek) "a" [a] and also to theLatin "a" [a].InAncient Greek the "ph" represented the consonants p [p] and h [h] pronounced closely and not the f [f] consonant.InAncient Greek the "y" represented the vowel [y] (ü) and not the semivowel [j] or the vowels [i] or [I].
TheThemata were combined Military and Administrative divisions of theByzantine Empire (East Roman Empire) which replaced theRoman provincial system in the 7th-8th century and reached their height in the 9th and 10th centuries.[1]
Ducates or Catepanates (combined Military and Administrative divisions of theByzantine Empire (East Roman Empire) on border regions that included smallerThemata under the command of aDux orKatepano)
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