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He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

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Piando Ferries, there is another way. Hello everyone and welcome to the history of Byzantine

episode 302 colonial occupation. Today we're going to talk about the Latin occupied parts of Byzantium.

Several listeners asked about this, about why Greece wasn't involved much in the narrative,

about how the Latin's governed and how the local Romans felt about the occupation.

Let's just remind ourselves which areas were still occupied when Constantinople was captured by Nicia.

Bordering the territory of Epirus in central Greece

is our first Latin lordship, the Duchy of Athens, which controlled the territory of Attica.

To the south you have the Principality of Achia, which covered all of the Peloponnese

aside from a couple of Venetian ports.

And then you had the duchy of the archipelago, which controlled the islands off the coast,

now known as the Cyclades. the Zakintos and Yubia. The most significant of these was the island of Crete.

Finally, we shouldn't forget Cyprus, which had essentially been absorbed by Utrameer at this point.

It was taken by the armies of the Third Crusade,

and so the experience of the Romans living there

is worth adding to the mix. There were of course other lands captured by the Latins during this period, but they had all been retaken by Roman forces by 1261. Most of the places I just listed never will be. The Greek

lands will be absorbed by the Ottomans in the 15th century. Cyprus will remain under Latin rule until the 16th century, and Crete will be in

Venetian hands until the 17th.

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