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The Sack of Constantinople that took place in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade caused the city to fall and to be established as the capital of the Latin Empire. It also sent the Byzantine imperial dynasty to exile, who founded the Empire of Nicaea. Constantinople came under Byzantine rule again in 1261 who ruled for nearly two centuries.
Siege of Constantinople (626) Siege of Constantinople (674–678) Siege of Constantinople (717–718) Siege of Constantinople (821–822) Siege of Constantinople (860) Rus'–Byzantine War (941) Siege of Constantinople (1047) Siege of Constantinople (1203) Sack of Constantinople; Siege of Constantinople (1235) Siege of Constantinople (1260)
Pages in category "Battles of Constantine the Great" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Battle of Adrianople (324) B. Battle of Brescia (312) C.
The struggle for Constantinople [1] [2] [3] was a complex series of conflicts following the dissolution of the Byzantine Empire in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, fought between the Latin Empire established by the Crusaders, various Byzantine successor states, and foreign powers such as the Second Bulgarian Empire and Sultanate of Rum, for control of Constantinople and supremacy ...
This category includes historical battles in which the Latin Empire (1204–1261) participated. ... Battle of Constantinople (1241) Siege of Constantinople (1260)
Map of Constantinople and the dispositions of the defenders and the besiegers. The army defending Constantinople was relatively small, totalling about 7,000 men, 2,000 of whom were foreigners. [note 4] The population decline also had a huge impact upon the Constantinople's defense capabilities. At the end of March 1453, emperor Constantine XI ...
List of battles of the Eighty Years' War (1566–1648); Lists of battles of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars (1792–1815); List of American Civil War battles (1861–1865)
Battle of Buttington: An army of Mercians, West Saxons, and Welsh led by Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians defeats a Viking army. 896: Battle of Southern Buh: Bulgarians defeat Magyars, who abandon the area and migrate westwards. Battle of Bulgarophygon: During the summer the Bulgars led by Prince Simeon I defeat a Byzantine army decisively ...