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Name: lordship of salona

Type: Cluster

Start: 1204 AD

End: 1394 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Lordship of Salona (Thessalonica)
  • Lordship of Salona (Latin Empire)
  • Lordship of Salona
  • Lordship of Salona (Anjou Kingdom of Sicily)
  • Establishment


  • October 1204: The first lord of Salona, Thomas I d'Autremencourt, was named by Boniface of Montferrat, the King of Thessalonica, in 1205.
  • Chronology


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    1. Crusades


    The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the Medieval period. The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291.

    1.1.Fourth Crusade

    Was a Latin Christian armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III. The stated intent of the expedition was to recapture the Muslim-controlled city of Jerusalem. However, the Western Crusaders sacked Constantinople in 1204 and partitioned the Byzantine Empire.


    2. Conquests of Henry


    Expansion during the rule of Henry in the Latin Empire.

  • January 1210: Emperor Henry of Flanders' expedition against the rebellious Lombard barons of Thessalonica in 1208-09, ended the feudal dependency of the southern principalities (the Duchy of Athens, the Marquisate of Bodonitsa, the Lordship of Salona, and the Triarchy of Negroponte) on Thessalonica, replacing it with direct imperial suzerainty.
  • January 1213: End of the Epirote occupation of Salona.

  • 3. Re-establishment of the Byzantine Empire


    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.

  • 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.

  • 4. Conquests of Bayezid I


    Expansion during the rule of Bayezid I in the Ottoman Sultanate.

  • January 1395: Due to the unpopularity of the Dowager Countess Helena Asanina Kantakouzene, in 1394, the town of Salona opened its gates to the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I.

  • 5. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1211: Short-lived Epirote occupation of the Lordship of Salona.

  • January 1226: Theodore of Thessalonica marched into Thrace and forced the Nicaeans to leave their European possessions to him.

  • May 1267: The Lordship of Salona, part of the Latin Empire, acknowledged Charles I of Sicily as their overlord after the Treaties of Viterbo in 1267. Charles I was the King of Sicily and founder of the House of Anjou.

  • January 1312: The Lordship of Salona came under the rule of the Catalan Fadrique family, the leader of the Catalan Company, who claimed the title of Count of Salona.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1395: Due to the unpopularity of the Dowager Countess Helena Asanina Kantakouzene, in 1394, the town of Salona opened its gates to the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I.
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