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The siege of Constantinople in 1260 was the failed attempt by the Nicene Empire, the major remnant of the fractured Byzantine Empire, to retake Constantinople from the Latin Empire and re-establish the City as the political, cultural and spiritual capital of a revived Byzantine Empire.
- 1260
- Latin victory, Nicaean army fails to capture Constantinople.
The Reconquest of Constantinople was the recapture of the city of Constantinople in 1261 CE by the forces led by Alexios Strategopoulos of the Empire of Nicaea from Latin occupation, leading to the re-establishment of the Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty, after an interval of 57 years where the city had been made the capital of ...
- 1261
Nicaean siege of Constantinople (1260) Main article: Siege of Constantinople (1260) After the alliance had won a crushing victory at the Battle of Pelagonia in summer 1259, Michael VIII's chief enemies were dead, in captivity or in exile.
- 1204–1261
- Nicaean victory, Restoration of the Byzantine Empire under the Palaeologus Dynasty.
Constantinople was besieged 36 times throughout its history. Out of the ten sieges that occurred during its time as a city-state and while it was under Roman rule, six were successful, three were repelled and one was lifted as a result of the agreement between the parties.
Feb 1, 2018 · In 1204 CE the unthinkable happened and Constantinople, after nine centuries of withstanding all comers, was brutally sacked. Even more startling was the fact that the perpetrators were not any of the traditional enemies of the Byzantine Empire: the armies of Islam, the Bulgars, Hungarians, or Serbs, but the western Christian army of the Fourth ...
- Mark Cartwright
Sep 26, 2023 · 1261 Jan 1. Reconquest of Constantinople. İstanbul, Turkey. In 1260, Michael began the assault on Constantinople itself, which his predecessors had been unable to do. He allied with Genoa, and his general Alexios Strategopoulos spent months observing Constantinople in order to plan his attack.
The Nicaean reconquest of Constantinople in 1261 CE and the restoration of the Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty did not end the conflict, as the Byzantines launched on and off efforts to reconquer southern Greece (the Principality of Achaea and the Duchy of Athens) and the Aegean islands until the 15th century, while the Latin powe...
