Duchy of Athens

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Was one of the Crusader states set up in Greece after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade during the period of the so-called Frankokratia. Initially a vassal of the Latin Empire, it enjoyed intermittent periods of autonomy and vassalage to several different countries. It was finally conquered by the expanding Ottoman Empire in 1458.

Establishment

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.

Chronology

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1. 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.

2. Conquests of Bayezid I

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

January 1395: In 1393/4, the Ottoman Turks, led by Sultan Bayezid I, conquered Neopatras, a city in central Greece, and the entire Spercheios River valley. This marked a significant expansion of the Ottoman Sultanate's territory in the region.

3. Conquests of Murad II

Expansion during the rule of Murad II in the Ottoman Sultanate.

January 1422: The Ottomans conquered parts of Albania.

4. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

May 1267: After the Treaties of Viterbo in 1267, the Duchy of Athens, along with the rest of Latin Greece, acknowledged the authority of Charles I of Sicily.

January 1389: Argos, Kiveri and Thermisi were seized by the Despot Theodore I Palaiologos.

January 1389: The Acciaioli family of Florence captured Athens.

January 1389: Nerio I Acciaioli was a Florentine nobleman and ruler of the Duchy of Athens. In 1388, he seized Nauplia, a strategic port city in the Peloponnese.

January 1389: The city of Nauplia was captured by Venice in 1388.

January 1391: Neopatras was occupied by the Duchy of Athens in 1390.

January 1395: The Republic of Venice acquired Athens in 1394 from the heirs of Nerio I Acciaioli.

January 1403: From 1395 to 1402 the Venetians briefly controlled the Duchy of Athens.