Event Re-establishment of the Byzantine Empire

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The recapture of the city of Constantinople by the forces of the Empire of Nicaea, led to the re-establishment of the Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty, after an interval of 57 years where the city had been the capital of the Latin Empire installed by the Fourth Crusade in 1204.

Chronology

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  • July 1261: The Nicaean Empire recovered Constantinople and rended the Latin Empire in 1261. All the vassals of the Latin Empire therefore became independente realms.
  • July 1261: The Latin Empire, established after the Fourth Crusade, ended in 1261 when Michael VIII Palaeologus of the Byzantine Empire retook Constantinople from the last Latin Emperor, Baldwin II. This marked the restoration of the Byzantine Empire in the region.