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Reconquest of Constantinople. Part of Nicaean-Latin Wars. The Gate of the Spring ( Pege) or Selymbria Gate, through which Strategopoulos and his men entered Constantinople on 25 July 1261. Date. 1261. Location. Constantinople. Result. Nicaean victory.
^ Between 1204 and 1261 there was an interregnum when the Latin Empire took control of Constantinople, causing the Byzantine Empire itself to be divided into the Empire of Nicaea, the Empire of Trebizond, and the Despotate of Epirus. The Empire of Nicaea is traditionally considered by historians to be the legitimate continuation of the ...
- Eastern division of the Roman Empire[1]
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.
Treaty of Nymphaeum (1261) The Treaty of Nymphaeum was a trade and defense pact signed between the Empire of Nicaea and the Republic of Genoa in Nymphaion in March 1261. This treaty would have a major impact on both the restored Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Genoa that would later dictate their histories for several centuries to come.
- March 13, 1261
1261. February 1 – Walter de Stapledon, bishop of Exeter (d. 1326) February 11 – Otto III, king of Hungary and Croatia (d. 1312) February 28 – Margaret of Scotland, queen of Norway (d. 1283) March 1 – Hugh le Despenser, English chief adviser (d. 1326) July 25 – Arthur II, Breton nobleman (House of Dreux) (d. 1312)
Help. Category:1261. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. This category is about media related to the year 1261 (Gregorian calendar). For the number, see Category:1261 (number). 1260s ( 13th century, 2nd millennium) 1260 · 1261 · 1262 · 1263 · 1264 · 1265 · 1266 · 1267 · 1268 · 1269 .
