Empire of Romania

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The Empire of Romania, better known as the Latin Empire, was a crusader state established by Western European powers after the Fourth Crusade’s conquest of Constantinople in 1204, ruling parts of the former Byzantine Empire until 1261.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin Christian state
crusader state
former empire
successor state of the Byzantine Empire
alsoKnownAs Imperium Romaniae
Latin Empire
linked to: Empire of Romania

Latin Empire of Constantinople
linked to: Latin Empire
areaIncludes Thrace
parts of Greece
parts of northwestern Asia Minor
capital Constantinople
claimedTitle Roman Emperor
commonLanguage Greek
conflict Bulgarian–Latin wars
wars with the Empire of Nicaea
continent Europe
currency hyperpyron
endDate 1261
endEvent Restoration of the Byzantine Empire in 1261
establishedAfter Fourth Crusade
establishedBy French and Flemish nobles
Venetian Republic
linked to: Republic of Venice

Western European crusaders
event Sack of Constantinople (1204)
firstRuler Baldwin I of Constantinople
followedBy Byzantine Empire
governmentType feudal monarchy
historicalRegion Romania (medieval term for Byzantine imperial territory)
linked to: Imperium Romaniae
locatedIn Balkans
Eastern Mediterranean
lostCapitalTo Empire of Nicaea
militaryAlly Republic of Venice
notableBattle Battle of Adrianople (1205)
officialLanguage Latin
opposedBy Bulgarian Empire
Despotate of Epirus
Empire of Nicaea
partOf Crusader states
precededBy Byzantine Empire
reasonForEnd recapture of Constantinople by the Empire of Nicaea
religion Latin Christianity
Roman Catholicism
ruler Baldwin I of Constantinople
Baldwin II of Constantinople
Henry of Flanders
Peter II of Courtenay
Robert I of Courtenay
startDate 1204
titleOfRuler Latin Emperor of Constantinople

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Latin Empire alsoKnownAs Empire of Romania
Empire of Romania alsoKnownAs Latin Empire
linked to: Empire of Romania
Principality of Achaea partOf Latin Empire (de facto sphere)
linked to: Empire of Romania