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Medieval era · 1260

Siege of Constantinople

The siege of Constantinople in 1260 was the failed attempt by the Nicene Empire, the major remnant of the fractured Byzantine Empire, to retake Constantinople from the Latin Empire and re-establish the City as the political, cultural and spiritual capital of a revived Byzantine Empire.

Siege of Constantinople
Siege of Constantinople · Cplakidas, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
When
1260
Where
Constantinople
Era
Medieval

Topics

Turkey1,258 BCE – todayByzantine Empire752 BCE – 1453

Before and after

First Battle of Homs1260Reconquest of Constantinople1261Show on timeline

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