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Name: Principality of Achaea (Latin Empire)

Type: Polity

Start: 1205 AD

End: 1261 AD

Nation: achea

Parent: latin empire

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Was one of the vassal states of the Latin Empire, which replaced the Byzantine Empire after the capture of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade. Later it was subjected to a series of foreign countreis.

Establishment


  • September 1205: The battle of the Olive Grove of Kountouras took place in the summer of 1205, in Messenia in the Morea peninsula, between the Frankish Crusaders and the local Byzantine Greeks, resulting in a victory of the Franks and the collapse of the local resistance.
  • Chronology


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    1. Conquests of Henry


    Expansion during the rule of Henry in the Latin Empire.

  • January 1213: Following their conquest in 1211-1212, the cities of Thebes and Athens were granted as a fief to Otto de la Roche, Duke of Athens, by Geoffrey I of Villehardouin, Prince of Achaea. The territory became part of the Duchy of Athens under Latin Empire control.

  • 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 1208: Modon (Methoni) and Coron (Koroni) were occupied by the Republic of Venice in 1207.

  • January 1239: Kythira Island (Cerigo) and Antikythera Island (Cerigotto) fell under Venetian domination.

  • 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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