Michael Komnenos Doukas, a prince from the…

September 1205 CE

Michael Komnenos Doukas, a prince from the deposed imperial ruling family, makes alliances with Albanian chiefs and drives the Venetians from lands that now make up southern Albania and northern Greece, and in 1205 he sets up an independent principality, the Despotate of Epirus, with Janina (now Ioánnina in northwest Greece) as its capital.

Michael is the illegitimate son of the sebastokrator John Doukas and is thus a first cousin of the emperors Isaac II Angelos and Alexios III Angelos.

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Janina > Ioánnina Ioannina Greece View →

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Alexios III Angelos View → Michael I Komnenos Doukas View →

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Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines) View → Albanians View → Venice, (Most Serene) Republic of View → Bulgarian Empire (Second), or Empire of Vlachs and Bulgars View → Negroponte, Triarchy of View → Nicaea, Empire of View → Latin Empire of Constantinople (“Romania”) View → Athens, Duchy of View → Thessalonica, Kingdom of View → Achaea, Principality of View → Epirus, Despotate of View →

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