Ancient regions of Anatolia

The following is a list of regions of Ancient Anatolia, also known as "Asia Minor."

The names reflect changes to languages, settlements and polities from the Bronze Age to conquest by Turkic 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 Themata were combined Military and Administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire (East Roman Empire) which replaced the Roman 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 the Byzantine Empire (East Roman Empire) on border regions that included smaller Themata under the command of a Dux or Katepano)

Region of Anatolia / Asia Minor Limits of Anatolia
Late Bronze Age regions of Anatolia/Asia Minor (circa 1400 BC)
Late Bronze Age regions of Anatolia/Asia Minor (circa 1200 BC) with main settlements.
Iron Age Anatolia/Asia Minor
Anatolia / Asia Minor in the Greco-Roman period. The classical regions and their main settlements (circa 200 BC).
Byzantine Anatolian Themata circa 950 A.D
The themata of the East Roman Empire ( Byzantine Empire ), at the death of Basil II in 1025.