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Name: Lordship of Salona

Type: Polity

Start: 1261 AD

End: 1394 AD

Nation: lordship of salona

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Was a Crusader state established after the Fourth Crusade (1204) in Central Greece, around the town of Salona (modern Amfissa). For most of its existence it was a vassal of other polities. As for all Greece, it finally fell to the Ottomans.

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: 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.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • 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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