14 lugl 736 anni - Theme system establish in North Syria

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When Leo returned to Antioch, he officially formed the Theme of Syria inside the city, with Sulayman as the Strategos. As part of the deal, when the the Imperial Army returned triumphantly to Antioch, Sulayman visited the Patriarch of Antioch and was baptized into Chalcedonian Christianity.
The new Theme borrowed an idea from the Muslims, the foros, which the Muslims would call it the jizya. The foros was an annual tax paid to the state by those who did not follow the official religion, that still practice in some area today. While the Arabs had used it as a means of gaining additional revenue Leo instituted the tax as a way to encourage further conversion. According to Leo IV's personal military diary, he said "it would be a better way to encourage conversion than purge those unwillings"

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