APPENDIX 537 c. 27. The theme of Lombardy, its principates, and governments. (An account of Italy, containing strange mistakes and curious trans- literations. ) c. 28. The founding of Venice. c. 2lt. Dalmatia and the adjacent peoples. Gives an account of the Croats and Serbs ; enumerates the coast cities of Dalmatia, names the islands off the coast, &c., &c. c. 30. Account of the themes of Dalmatia. Historical and geographical in- formation about the Croatian and Servian settlements. c. 31. More about the Croatians (Xpa>;8aToi). c. 32. More about the Serbs (^lepJB^ot). c. 33. The Zachlums. c. 34. The Terbuniates and Kanalites. c. 35. The people of Dioclea. ^ c. 36. The Paganoi or Arentans. c. 37. The Patzinaks, their country, history, and social organization. c. 38. The Hungarians, their migrations. c. 39. The Kabars (a tribe of the Khazars). c. 40. The tribes of the Kabars and Hungarians. More about the Hun- garians and their later history. c. 41. Mora'ia and its prince Sphendoplok. c. 42. Geographj- of the regions from Thessalouica to the Danube and Belgrade ; of Hungary and the Patzinak land, as far as Sarkel (fort on the Don) and Russia ; of Cherson and Bosporus. Also of Zichia, Papagia, Kazachia, Alauia, Abasgia up to Soteriuijolis [the lands between Chazaria and the Caucasus]. c. 43. The land of Taron, and its relations with Leo VI. and Romanus I. c. 44. About Armenia and the principality of Manzikert. c. 4.0. About the Iberians, and the liistory of their recent relations with the Empire. c. 46. About the genealog- of the Iberians and the fort of Adrunutzion. c. 47. About Cyprus and how it was repopulated. c. 48a. Canon of the si.xth General Council about Cyprus. IV. (c. 48-53) c. 486. Transition to part iv. c. 48c. A note about the invention of Greek Fire. c. 49. How the Slavs of the Peloponnese were made subject to the church of Patrae. c. 50a. The Slavs of the Peloponnese ; the Melingi and the Ezerites, and their tribute. Likewise concerning the ^lainotes and their tribute. c. 501. Information concerning (1) changes in some of the themes, (2) the catapans or governors of the ^lardaites, (3) the succession of Imperial chamberlains. c. 51. Concerning the galleys (Spofxaiyia), first introduced by Leo VI., for Imperial excursions, instead of the old barges (aypdpia) ; concerning their crews ; concerning the protospathars of the Phiale (a part of the Palace) to whom the superintendence of this Imperial yacht service was entrusted ; and concerning some remarkable naval officers who distin- guished themselves in the reigns of Leo VI. , Romanus I., and Constan- tine VII. c. 52. The tribute of horses imposed on the Peloponnesus in the reign of Romanus. 0. 53. A history of Cherson, beginning with the time of Diocletian. Contains the .story of Gycia.'*
- See Finlay, ii. 354 S97., and R. Garnett, the Story of Gycia in the Eng. Hist. Review,
vol. xii. p. 100 sqq. (1897), where it is made probable that this episode belongs not to the Byzantine, but to an earlier period of the history of Cherson, probably to 36-16 B.C.
