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    sack of Constantinople occurred in April 1204 and marked the culmination of the Fourth Crusade. Crusaders sacked and destroyed most of Constantinople...
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    before: the Sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade in 1204. The crusaders established an unstable Latin state in and around Constantinople while the...
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    However, a sequence of economic and political events culminated in the Crusader army's 1202 siege of Zara and the 1204 sack of Constantinople, rather than the...
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    internal revolts. In the aftermath of the Crusader sack of Constantinople, the empire was dissolved into a patchwork of pretenders and warlords. The former...
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    lifted by reaching mutual agreements. Four of these sieges took place during civil wars. The Sack of Constantinople that took place in 1204 during the Fourth...
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    when Constantinople was occupied by Western European and Venetian armed forces during the Fourth Crusade, a military event known as the Sack of Constantinople...
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    restoration of the Byzantine Empire in 1261. Enrico Dandolo, the doge of Venice who led the Fourth Crusade and the 1204 Sack of Constantinople, was buried...
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    but a sequence of economic and political events culminated in the Crusader army sacking the city of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire...
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    and looted Constantinople, then the capital of the Byzantine Empire and seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church. After the city's sacking, most of the Byzantine...
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    and the Sack of Constantinople, 106 S. Blondal, The Varangians of Byzantium, 164 J. Phillips, The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople, 159 Andrea...
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    and the Sack of Constantinople, 144. J. Phillips, The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople, 155. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle...
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    empire was largely dismantled in 1204, following the Sack of Constantinople by Latin armies at the end of the Fourth Crusade; its former territories were then...
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    Fourth Crusade in 1204 following the Crusader Sack of Constantinople. The recapture of Constantinople brought the city back into Byzantine possession...
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    Sophia was built by Justinian I following the Nika riots. Constantinople never recovered from its sack during the Fourth Crusade and even though the Byzantine...
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    Alexios V Doukas (category Christians of the Fourth Crusade)
    emperor from February to April 1204, just prior to the sack of Constantinople by the participants of the Fourth Crusade. His family name was Doukas, but...
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    was one of the most prominent leaders of the Fourth Crusade, which resulted in the sack of Constantinople in 1204, the conquest of large parts of the Byzantine...
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    The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (Greek: Οἰκουμενικὸν Πατριαρχεῖον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, romanized: Oikoumenikón Patriarkhíon Konstantinoupóleos...
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    West led to the Sack of Constantinople by the forces of the Fourth Crusade in 1204 and the dismemberment of the empire. Although a number of small Byzantine...
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    organized the Fourth Crusade of 1202–1204, which ended in the sack of Constantinople. Although the attack on Constantinople went against his explicit orders...
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  • via the Sacking of Thessalonica in 1185, the capture and pillaging of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade in 1204, and the imposition of Latin patriarchs...
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    members of the family formed the ruling dynasty of the Empire of Nicaea, a Byzantine rump state that existed from the 1204 sack of Constantinople by the...
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    the Crusaders capturing Constantinople; Alexios and David began their march on Trebizond before news of the Sack of Constantinople on 13 April 1204 could...
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    emperor of the Nicaean Empire from August 16, 1258 to December 25, 1261, one of the Greek successor states formed after the Sack of Constantinople by the...
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    Alexios IV Angelos (category Christians of the Fourth Crusade)
    one of the worst Byzantine emperors for calling upon the Fourth Crusade to help him gain power, which ultimately led to the sack of Constantinople. The...
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    The Great Palace of Constantinople (Greek: Μέγα Παλάτιον, Méga Palátion; Latin: Palatium Magnum), also known as the Sacred Palace (Greek: Ἱερὸν Παλάτιον...
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    Perateia (category Empire of Trebizond)
    Comneni established a separate empire a few weeks before the Crusader sack of Constantinople in 1204. Trapezuntine control over Perateia had been weak almost...
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    In 717–718 Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, was besieged for the second time by the Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate. The campaign...
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    Enrico Dandolo (category Christians of the Fourth Crusade)
    and his role in the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople. Dandolo died in 1205 in Constantinople and was buried at the Hagia Sophia. Born in...
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    Bartholomeos; born 29 February 1940) is the current Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople since 2 November 1991. In accordance with his title, he is regarded...
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    Empire of Nicaea, and the Despotate of Epirus. A third one, the Empire of Trebizond was created a few weeks before the sack of Constantinople by Alexios...
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