Nicaea, Empire of

The Empire of Nicaea is the largest of the three Byzantine Greek successor states founded by the aristocracy of the Byzantine Empire that fled after Constantinople was occupied by Western European and Venetian forces during the Fourth Crusade.

Founded by the Laskaris family, it lastd from 1204 to 1261, when the Nicaean recovery of Constantinople re-established the Byzantine Empire.

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