Duchy of Athens
English
editProper noun
edit- (historical) A duchy, encompassing the regions of Attica and Boeotia, which was established in Greece in 1205 after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade.
- 1883, Marcius Willson, Robert Pierpont Wilson, Mosaics of Grecian History, Harper & Brothers, page 483:
- The Duchy of Athens was the most interesting and renowned of these Frankish kingdoms; and in one of his lectures PRESIDENT FELTON1 points out the traces which this duchy has left here and there in modern literature.
- 1987, John Van Antwerp Fine Jr., “The Late Medieval Balkans”, in Paperback, University of Michigan Press, published 1994, page 404:
- Strengthened by this alliance, Nerio then decided to move decisively against the Duchy of Athens.
- 2002, D. Hupchick, The Balkans: From Constantinople to Communism, Springer, page 81:
- The dukes of the Duchy of Athens came to serve as bailiffs in Achaia for the relentlessly anti-Byzantine Anjevin rulers of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Charles I (1262-85) and Charles II (1285-1309).
Translations
edithistorical duchy in Greece
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Further reading
edit- Duchy of Athens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Frankokratia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Othon de la Roche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Duchy of Neopatras on Wikipedia.Wikipedia