Byzantine Empire under the Angelos dynasty

Byzantine Empire
Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίωνcode: grc is deprecated (Ancient Greek)
*Imperium Romanum*code: la is deprecated (Latin)
Byzantine Empire Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων (Ancient Greek); Imperium Romanum (Latin);
1185–1204
	The Byzantine Empire on the eve of the Sack of Constantinople, in 1204 AD. The Byzantine Empire on the eve of the Sack of Constantinople, in 1204 AD.
Capital	Constantinople
Common languages	Greek, Old Albanian, Armenian, Aromanian, Old Bulgarian, Old Anatolian Turkish and other South Slavic languages
Religion	Greek Orthodox Church
Government	Monarchy
Emperor
• 1185–1195; 1203–1204	Isaac II Angelos
• 1195–1203	Alexios III
• 1203–1204	Alexios IV
• 1204	Alexios V
History
•	1185
•	1204
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Byzantine Empire under the Komnenos dynasty
Latin Empire
Empire of Nicaea
Empire of Trebizond
Despotate of Epirus
Kingdom of Thessalonica
Sultanate of Rum
Principality of Arbanon

The Byzantine Empire was ruled by people from the Angelos dynasty from 1185 to 1204 AD. The Angelos family went into power after Andronikos I Komnenos was deposed. It could not stop invasions from the Turks by the Sultanate of Rum or the uprising and the creation of the Bulgarian Empire. It also lost the Dalmatian coast and many areas in the Balkans to Manuel I Komnenos of the Kingdom of Hungary.

There was much infighting by the elite in the empire. That made it lose much of its stability and military power. The Byzantine Empire was also not liked at the time was because of a massacre of Latins by the earlier dynasty. The empire was very weak which led to the splitting of the empire in 1204, when soldiers from Fourth Crusade overthrew Emperor Alexios V Doukas.

Byzantine Empire Under The Angelos Dynasty Media

The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople, by Eugène Delacroix (1840, oil on canvas, 410 x 498 cm, Louvre, Paris).

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