The Crusader empire established after the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople in 1204, which controlled the city and parts of Thrace and Greece until Michael VIII Palaiologos and the Empire of Nicaea recaptured Constantinople in 1261.
Ended in 1261 when Nicaean forces under general Alexios Strategopoulos seized Constantinople by surprise on 25 July 1261, expelling Baldwin II and restoring Byzantine rule under Michael VIII Palaiologos.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Latin Empire of Constantinople — the shape you scrub through changes in 1204 · 1228 · 1240 · 1251.
A modern, gripping single-volume history of the Crusades and the Latin East that frames these Aegean and Balkan states.
Essential for understanding the Byzantine context of the Latin Empire and its eventual reconquest.