The Empire of Nicaea was a successor state to the Byzantine Empire, or rather a Byzantine Empire in exile lasting from 1204 to 1261 CE. https://www.worldhistory.org/Empire_of_Nicaea/ #History #ByzantineEmpire #Constantinople #DespotateofEpirus

Thessaly was an independent state in medieval Greece from 1267 or 1268 to 1394 CE, first as the Greek-ruled Thessaly and later as the Catalan and Latin-ruled Duchy of Neopatras. Under its sebastokrators, Thessaly was a thorn in the side of the Byzantine Empire and an ally of the Latin states in Greece and southern Italy. Following the death of the last Thessalian sebastokrator in 1318 CE, the D...https://www.worldhistory.org/Thessaly_and_the_Duchy_of_Neopatras/ #ByzantineEmpire #DespotateofEpirus #DespotateoftheMorea