Duchy of Philippopolis
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A short-lived duchy of the Latin Empire founded after the collapse and partition of the Byzantine Empire after the Fourth Crusade in 1204.
Establishment
October 1204: The Duchy of Philippopolis was a short-lived duchy of the Latin Empire founded after the collapse and partition of the Byzantine Empire by the Fourth Crusade in 1204.
Chronology
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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.
Were a series of conflicts between the Second Bulgarian Empire and the Latin Empire.
April 1205: Battle of Adrianople.
November 1205: During the course of 1205, the Bulgarians captured Serres and Philippopolis, overrunning much of the territory of the Latin Empire in Thrace and Macedonia.
Expansion during the rule of Henry in the Latin Empire.
June 1208: Boril was the successor of Tsar Kaloyan of the Second Bulgarian Empire. The Battle of Philippopolis in 1208 was fought between the Bulgarians and the Latin Empire, resulting in Boril's defeat and loss of the territory to the Duchy of Philippopolis.
January 1208: Philippopolis was captured by the Bulgarians.
January 1226: Theodore of Thessalonica marched into Thrace and forced the Nicaeans to leave their European possessions to him.
January 1226: The Nicaeans seized Adrianople from the Latins in 1225.
January 1227: Epirote armies conquered Thrace in 1225-26, appearing before Constantinople itself. The Latin Empire was saved for a time by the threat posed to Theodore by the Bulgarian tsar Ivan II Asen, and a truce was concluded in 1228.
February 1227: Epirote armies conquered Thrace in 1225-26, appearing before Constantinople itself. The Latin Empire was saved for a time by the threat posed to Theodore by the Bulgarian tsar Ivan II Asen, and a truce was concluded in 1228.
January 1228: John III's possession of Adrianople was terminated by Theodore Komnenos Doukas of Epirus and Thessalonica, who drove the Nicaean garrison out of Adrianople and annexed much of Thrace in 1227.
March 1230: The territory of the Duchy of Philippopolis finally joined the Bulgarian Empire, in the aftermath of Tsar Ivan Asen II's victory over the Empire of Thessalonica at the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
Disestablishment
March 1230: The territory of the Duchy of Philippopolis finally joined the Bulgarian Empire, in the aftermath of Tsar Ivan Asen II's victory over the Empire of Thessalonica at the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
