The main Byzantine successor state founded after the Fourth Crusade's sack of Constantinople in 1204, which preserved Byzantine imperial traditions in western Anatolia until Michael VIII Palaiologos recaptured Constantinople in 1261 and restored the Byzantine Empire.
Ceased to exist as a separate polity in 1261 when Nicaean forces under general Alexios Strategopoulos recaptured Constantinople from the Latin Empire, restoring the Byzantine Empire under Michael VIII Palaiologos.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Empire of Nicaea — the shape you scrub through changes in 1204 · 1228 · 1240 · 1251.
Comprehensive coverage of the Nicaean period and Byzantine restoration under Michael VIII.
A modern, gripping single-volume history of the Crusades and the Latin East that frames these Aegean and Balkan states.