Empire of Nicaea

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The Empire of Nicaea (Greek: Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων), also known as the Nicene Empire, was the largest of the three Greek rump states founded by the aristocracy of the Byzantine Empire that fled when Constantinople was occupied by Western European and Venetian armed forces during the Fourth Crusade, a military event known as the Sack of Constantinople; Latin Empire, was established by an army of Crusaders and Venice after the capture of Constantinople and the surrounding environs. Like the other Byzantine rump states that formed due to the 1204 fracturing of the empire, such as the Empire of Trebizond and the Despotate of Epirus, it was a continuation of the eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived well into the Middle Ages. Founded by the Laskaris family, in the Byzantine holdings of northwestern Anatolia, it lasted from 1204 to 1261, when it recaptured Constantinople and restored the empire. Thus, the Nicene Empire is seen as a direct continuation of the Byzantine Empire, as it fully...

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