  Baryonic states are sufficiently complex to reveal physics that is hidden in
the mesonic bound states. Using gauge/gravity correspondence we study
analytically and numerically baryons in theories with space-dependent
$\theta$-term, or theories under strong magnetic fields. Such holographic
studies on baryons are accommodated in a generic analytic framework we develop
for anisotropic theories, where their qualitative features are common
irrespective of the source that triggers the anisotropy. We find that the
distribution of the quarks forming the state, depends on the angle between the
baryon and the anisotropic direction. Its shape is increasingly elliptic with
respect to the strength of the field sourcing the anisotropy, counterbalancing
the broken rotational invariance on the gluonic degrees of freedom. Strikingly,
the baryons dissociate in stages with a process that depends on the proximity
of the quarks to the anisotropic direction, where certain quark pairs abandon
the bound state first, followed by the closest pairs to them as the temperature
increases. This observation may also serve as a way to identify the nature of
certain exotic states. Finally, we investigate holographic baryons with
decreased number of quarks and explain why in theories under consideration the
presence of anisotropy does not modify the universal stability condition in
contrast to the usual trend.
