Fourth Crusade Shatters Byzantium
1204 — Constantinople is captured and Latin states are established across parts of Greece.
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1204 — Constantinople is captured and Latin states are established across parts of Greece.
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c. 800–1204 CE — Byzantium organizes the Adriatic region around Dyrrachium as a military and administrative theme. The city becomes essential for defending routes betw...
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c. 146–120 BCE — Roman engineers develop the Via Egnatia from the Adriatic coast through Macedonia toward Byzantium. Dyrrachium becomes one of the principal western ga...
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c. 6500 BCE–2026 CE — The territory and people of modern Albania were shaped by prehistoric Balkan societies, Illyrian political formations, Rome, Byzantium, medieval ...
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Mycenaean kingdoms, poleis, Macedon, Rome, Byzantium, Ottoman rule and the modern state belong to one landscape but very different political worlds.
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Its inhabitants called themselves Romans, spoke increasingly Greek and preserved an Eastern Roman state for centuries.
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