Macedonia – Byzantine theme, formed due to the danger of Bulgarians at the time of Empress Irina, no later than 802 years, when it first mentioned in the sources. It covered northwestern Thrace with the Adrianple Center. He received the name after the population that moved there from geographical Macedonia after Slavic attacks. Hence the founder of the Macedonian Emarious Dynasty Vasily ⅰ. It is significantly reduced, it is destroyed by the Ottomans in the second half of ⅹⅳ c. Lit.: Constantino Porfirogenito, de thematibus.introduzione, Testo Critico, Commento a Curadi A. Petrusi, Citta del Vaticano, 1952; P. Kolvaarov, educating the topic “Makedonija” in Thrace, “Notice of the Institute of History”, ⅹⅹⅰ, Sofia, 1970, 219-240. B. Petr.
Original article in Macedonian language Cyrillic alphabet
Кириличен напис МАКЕДОНИЈА византиска тема