IV. Haçlı Seferinin Ardından Batı Anadolu’da Mücadele Eden İki Rakip: İstanbul Latin Krallığı ve İznik İmparatorluğu
After the Fourth Crusade Two Rivals Struggled in Western Anatolia: The Latin Empire of Constantinople and The Empire of Nicaea

Summary/Abstract: The Fourth Crusade, began with call of the Pope Innocentius III to conquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem, turned on the Byzantine Empire deviating from the original purpose as a result of intervention of Venice Doge Enrico Dandolo. Latins captured the Constantinople on 13 April 1204 and founded a kingdom. After the fall of the Constantinople successor states (The Empire of Nicaea and The Despotate of Epirus), founded by the aristocracy of the Byzantine, engaged in the fight against Latins. The Empire of Nicaea which one of these two states put an end to Latin domination in Constantinople in 1261 after fifty-seven years of struggle. In this article, relations between the Latin Empire of Constantinople and the Empire of Nicaea will be discussed.

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