The
Anatolic Theme (,
Anatolikon [thema]), more properly known as the
Theme of the Anatolics (Greek: ,
thema Anatolikon) was a
Byzantine theme (a military-civilian province) in central
Asia Minor (modern
Turkey). From its establishment, it was the largest and senior-most of the themes, and its military governors (
strategoi) were powerful individuals, several of them rising to the imperial throne or launching failed rebellions to capture it. The theme and its army played an important role in the
Arab–Byzantine wars of the 7th–10th centuries, after which it enjoyed a period of relative peace that lasted until its conquest by the
Seljuk Turks in the late 1070s.