Topic summary
Tephrike
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Divriği.
History
Later called Tephrike (Greek: Τεφρική) it was recaptured by the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Emperor Basil I and was temporarily named Leontokome (after Emperor Leo VI) and made into a thema. In the early eleventh century, the town was part of the territory given to the Armenian king Seneqerim-Hovhannes of Vaspurakan in exchange for his lands in Vaspurakan.