![]() The Greek states allied together to fight against the Latin establishments, but also fought against each other over the Byzantine throne. The Empire fell into a plethora of Greek successor states, most notably Trebizond, Epirus and Nicaea. The crusaders had not intended to take the city from the beginning, but after the capture a Latin state was established, which was quite unstable. In the 1,100 years of the Empire Constantinople had only been taken once in the Fourth Crusade in 1204. The siege of Constantinople (April 2nd – May 29th 1453) marked the end of the old Byzantine Empire, and the rise of the Ottoman Turks. Search Search for: The Siege of Constantinople
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