Empire · approximate1204 – 1261 · 57 years

Empire of Nicaea

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

No editorial summary yet for Empire of Nicaea. The border provenance and the wars recorded for this polity are what the dataset holds.

Borders & accuracy

Approximate borders

Dashed borders mark empires whose extent we can date but whose precise frontiers are contested or undocumented.

SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
DETAILhand-traced: HBM 1200 'Byzantine Empire' Anatolian polygon clipped west of a hand-drawn Sangarius-Phrygia-Meander frontier (r15)
POLITY TYPEstate

Coast is HBM 1200; the eastern edge (Heraclea Pontica - Sangarius - Philadelphia - Meander) is the approximate frontier with the Sultanate of Rum c. 1250; the Black Sea coast east of Heraclea went to Trebizond/Rum. Closes the Byzantine 1204-1261 gap alongside latin-empire.

Wars of this empire7

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Nicaean–Latin wars1204–64
Significant
Wars of the Second Bulgarian Empire1185–1396
Regional
Battle of Antioch, Anatolia1211
Regional
Battle of Rhyndacus1211
Regional
Battle of Klokotnitsa1230
Regional
Battle of Adrianople1255
Regional
Battle of Pelagonia1259
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1204 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Empire of Nicaea (1204 – 1261). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/empire-of-nicaea · Sources & methodology