Hello everyone and welcome to the history of Byzantium.

Episode 292. History of Byzantium, episode 292, Venice and the rest of the empire with John Geebfreed.

Over the last few episodes we viewed the aftermath of the sack from a variety of vantage points

and yet we haven't actually touched every corner of the Roman world.

With the Byzantine government extinguished,

the empire had been divided up between

around 13 different states,

so we need to survey the wreckage to give ourselves a full picture.

We'll get some help with this from Dr John Geebfried from the University of Vienna

who's been invaluable in putting together these next few

episodes. I'm going to introduce John in more detail next week, but he teaches history

and digital humanities in Vienna and his academic work focuses on the Crusades, the

Crusaders, the Crusaders and European interactions with the Mongols.

We recorded an entire episode about Latin, Constantinople and the Venetians, but I've decided to split that in two.

Next week we'll talk about New Rome. Today he will be telling us more about the biggest vulture in the aviary, the Venetians.

The city has fallen.

The city has fallen.

The first place to mention is Atalia. The city is

on the southern coast of Anatolia, roughly halfway along its length.

This has long been the key port which connected the Aegean to Solicia and Cyprus beyond.

With Constantinople in Chaos, the city was isolated and the Seljuks seized it in 1207. The Christians inside launched a counterattack

though with help from the Latins of Cyprus but by the next decade

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