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Name: Lordship of Salona (Latin Empire)

Type: Polity

Start: 1210 AD

End: 1261 AD

Nation: lordship of salona

Parent: latin empire

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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


  • 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.
  • Chronology


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    1. Conquests of Henry


    Expansion during the rule of Henry in the Latin Empire.

  • January 1213: End of the Epirote occupation of Salona.

  • 2. 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.

  • 3. 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.

  • Disestablishment


  • 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.
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