Grand Duchy of Lemnos

This article is about the specific polity Grand Duchy of Lemnos and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Was a fief of the Latin Empire and one of the many countries created by Western Europeans after their conquest of the Byzantine Empire in the Fourth Crusade. It was factually independent after the end of the Latin Empire.

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.