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The Despotate of Epirus (Greek: Δεσποτάτο της Ηπείρου) was one of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire established in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade in 1204 by a branch of the Angelos dynasty. It claimed to be the legitimate successor of the Byzantine Empire, along with the Empire of Nicaea and the Empire of Trebizond. The term "Despotate of Epirus" is, like ...
The Despotate of Epirus was one of several Greek successor states formed from the fragmented remnants of the Byzantine Empire following the Fourth Crusade in 1204. Founded by a branch of the Angelos dynasty, it was one of the entities, alongside the Empire of Nicaea and the Empire of Trebizond, that claimed legitimacy as the successor to the ...
Epirus ( / ɪˈpaɪrəs /; Epirote Greek: Ἄπειρος, Ápeiros; Attic Greek: Ἤπειρος, Ḗpeiros) was an ancient Greek kingdom, and later republic, located in the geographical region of Epirus, in parts of north-western Greece and southern Albania. Home to the ancient Epirotes, the state was bordered by the Aetolian League to the ...
Epirus, despotate of. despotate of Epirus: When, in 1204, the army of the Fourth Crusade set up the Latin Empire of Constantinople on the ruins of the Byzantine Empire, an independent Greek state emerged in Epirus under Michael I, a member of the Angelus family. It stretched from Durazzo (Durrës) in the north to the Gulf of Pátrai in the south.
His rule was extended by 1810 to most of the Peloponnese (Pelopónnisos), central Greece, and parts of western Macedonia and was one cause of the War of Greek Independence (1821–29). Much of northern Epirus was united with Greece in 1913, leaving minorities on both sides of the Greek-Albanian frontier. In 1939 Italy annexed all of Albania but ...
By the end of the 12th century, many smaller territorial units were organized. In the 13th century the independent Despotate of Epirus was established after the fall of Constantinople in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade. Although related to the Angelos dynasty in Constantinople, the early rulers of Epirus used the family names Komnenos and Doukas.
1318 (Despotate of Epirus) The House of Angelos ( / ˈ æ n dʒ əl oʊ s / ; pl. Angeloi ; Greek : Ἄγγελος , pl. Ἄγγελοι , female version Angelina Ἀγγελίνα ), Latinised as Angelus , was a Byzantine Greek noble family that produced several Emperors and other prominent nobles during the middle and late Byzantine Empire .
