1. Honigmann, E. (ed.), Le Synekdèmos d'Hiéroklès et l’opuscule géographique de Georges de Chypre (Bruxelles 1939), p. 34, 696.6. 2. Taina, captured and sacked by the Arabs in 727, when the latter advanced to Gangra and Nicaea under the general Mu’awiya b. Hisam, must have been the castle of Ateus in Phrygia. 3. It is believed that these events led to the administrative changes that took place in the second half of the 9th c. in the themes of the region; see Bλυσίδου Β. – Kουντούρα Ε. – Λαμπάκης Σ. – Λουγγής T. –Σαββίδης A., H Mικρά Aσία των Θεμάτων: έρευνες πάνω στην γεωγραφική φυσιογνωμία και προσωπογραφία των βυζαντινών θεμάτων της Mικράς Aσίας (7th – 11th c.) (Eρευνητική Bιβλιοθήκη 1, Athens 1998), pp. 125-126. 4. Moravcsik, G. – Jenkins, R. J .H. (ed.), Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio (Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae 1, Washington D.C. 1967), p. 50, 101-108; Pertusi, A. (ed.), Constantino Porfirogenito, De Thematibus (Studi e Testi 160, Città del Vaticano 1952), p. 236. |