Much of the Greek peninsula had been…

1396 CE to 1539 CE

Much of the Greek peninsula had been lost by the Byzantine Empire at first to the Serbs and then to the Ottomans in the fourteenth century.

By the beginning of the fifteenth century, the Ottoman advance means that Byzantine territory in Greece is limited mainly to its now-largest city, Thessaloniki, and the Peloponnese (Despotate of the Morea).

After the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, the Morea is the last remnant of the Byzantine Empire to hold out against the Ottomans.

However, this, too, falls to the Ottomans in 1460, completing the Ottoman conquest of mainland Greece.

With the Turkish conquest, many Byzantine Greek scholars, who up until now are largely responsible for preserving Classical Greek knowledge, flee to the West, taking with them a large body of literature and thereby significantly contributing to the Renaissance.

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Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines) View → Serbs (South Slavs) View → Roman Empire, Eastern: Komnenos dynasty, restored View → Roman Empire, Eastern: Angelid dynasty View → Epirus, Despotate of View → Serbia, Kingdom of View → Thessalonica, East Roman Theme of View → Achaea, Principality of View → Ottoman Emirate View → Ottoman Emirate View → Morea, Despotate of View → Ottoman Empire View →

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Renaissance, Italian View → Constantinople, Fall of View →

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