Latin Empire of Constantinople

historical empire, Europe

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Greece

  • Academy of Athens
    In Greece: Results of the Fourth Crusade

    …was the ruler of the Latin Empire (also referred to as Romania) set up in Constantinople in 1204 by the Latin (Western) Christians of the Fourth Crusade and claimed jurisdiction over the territories of the Byzantine state. A kingdom of Thessalonica was established, to whose ruler the lords of Athens…

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Ionian Islands

  • Paxos
    In Ionian Islands

    When the Latin empire (1204–61) was established at Constantinople, the Venetians received Corfu; but in 1214 the Greek despotate of Epirus annexed the first Venetian colony, and a long period of Epirote, Sicilian, and Neapolitan-Angevin rule followed until 1386, when Corfu submitted voluntarily to the Venetian republic.…

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