Paphlagonia (theme)

Theme of Paphlagonia Παφλαγονία, θέμα Παφλαγονίας
Theme of the Byzantine Empire
c. 820–1071 c. 1130s–1380
The Asian themes of the Byzantine Empire c. 842
Capital	Gangra Kastamon
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Established	c. 820
• Fall to the Seljuks	c. 1078
• Byzantine recovery	1130s
• Fall to the Turks.	c. 1380
Today part of	Turkey

The Theme of Paphlagonia (Greek: θέμα Παφλαγονίας) was a military-civilian province (thema or theme) of the Byzantine Empire in the namesake region along the northern coast of Anatolia, in modern Turkey.