Latin Empire

Overview

The Latin Empire, also referred to as the Latin Empire of Constantinople or the Constantinopolitan Empire, was a feudal Crusader state founded by the leaders of the Fourth Crusade on lands captured from the Byzantine Empire. The Latin Empire was intended to replace the Byzantine Empire as the Western-recognized Roman Empire in the east, with a Catholic emperor enthroned in place of the Eastern Orthodox Roman emperors. The main objective to form a Latin Empire was planned over the course of the Fourth Crusade, promoted by crusade leaders such as Boniface I of Montferrat, as well as the Republic of Venice.

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Borders & accuracy

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

• SOURCEmanual construction / verification
• DETAILmanual-construction
• POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire6

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

• Nicaean–Latin wars1204–64
  Significant
• Wars of the Second Bulgarian Empire1185–1396
  Regional
• Battle of Adrianople1205
  Regional
• Battle of Philippopolis1208
  Regional
• Battle of Rhyndacus1211
  Regional
• Battle of Pelagonia1259
  Regional