Frankish Greece

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Frankish Greece refers to the collection of Crusader-ruled states established in mainland Greece and the Aegean after the Fourth Crusade’s conquest of the Byzantine Empire in 1204.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Crusader state complex
historical region
medieval polity
appliesToJurisdiction Aegean Sea region
Aegean islands
central Greece
surface form: Central Greece

Peloponnese
Thessaly
mainland Greece
country Crusader states
surface form: Crusader states in Greece
describedBySource Byzantine historians
medieval Western chronicles
ethnicGroup Franks
Greeks
Italians
Venetians
followedBy Ottoman Empire in the Balkans
surface form: Ottoman rule in Greece

restored Byzantine rule
follows Byzantine rule in Greece
hasCapital Principality of Achaea
surface form: Andravida (Principality of Achaea)

Duchy of Athens
surface form: Athens (Duchy of Athens)

Corinth
surface form: Corinth (Principality of Achaea, at times)

Naxos
surface form: Naxos (Duchy of the Archipelago)
hasCause Fourth Crusade
partition of the Byzantine Empire
hasInfluenceOn Latin–Greek cultural interactions in the eastern Mediterranean
feudal structures in medieval Greece
hasPart Barony of Bodonitsa
County palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos
Duchy of Athens
Duchy of the Archipelago
Kingdom of Thessalonica
Latin Empire vassal states in Greece
Lordship of Negroponte
Principality of Achaea
Triarchy of Negroponte
inception 1204
languageUsed French
Greek
Italian
Medieval Latin
locatedInTimePeriod High Middle Ages
Late Middle Ages
partOf Latin East
religion Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodoxy

Roman Catholicism
significantEvent conquest by the Ottoman Empire (14th–15th centuries)
establishment after the sack of Constantinople in 1204
expansion of Venetian influence in the Aegean
gradual reconquest by the Byzantine Empire (13th–14th centuries)
startTime 1204

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Chronicle of Morea countryOfOrigin Frankish Greece
Duchy of Athens partOf Frankish Greece
this entity surface form: Latin states in Greece
Duchy of Athens partOf Frankish Greece
this entity surface form: Frankokratia in Greece
Frankish conquest of the Peloponnese relatedTo Frankish Greece
this entity surface form: Crusader states in Greece
Villehardouin dynasty historicalRegion Frankish Greece
Catalan domains in Greece partOf Frankish Greece
Duke of Neopatras partOf Frankish Greece
this entity surface form: Latin states in Greece
Battle of Halmyros regionAffected Frankish Greece
Battle of Halmyros relatedTo Frankish Greece
this entity surface form: Frankokratia in Greece
Alfonso Fadrique placeOfActivity Frankish Greece
Alfonso Fadrique sphereOfInfluence Frankish Greece
this entity surface form: Frankish principalities in Greece
Acciaioli family expandedPowerTo Frankish Greece
Duke of Athens partOf Frankish Greece
Francesco I Acciaioli historicalRegion Frankish Greece
Walter V of Brienne regionOfActivity Frankish Greece
Duke of Neopatria historicalRegion Frankish Greece