Much of the Greek peninsula had been…
1396 CE to 1539 CE
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)
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Serbs (South Slavs)
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Roman Empire, Eastern: Komnenos dynasty, restored
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Roman Empire, Eastern: Angelid dynasty
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Epirus, Despotate of
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Serbia, Kingdom of
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Thessalonica, East Roman Theme of
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Achaea, Principality of
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Ottoman Emirate
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Ottoman Emirate
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Morea, Despotate of
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Ottoman Empire
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