| Property | Value |
|---|
| rdf:type | |
| rdfs:label | |
| rdfs:comment | - The Bulgarian–Latin Wars were a series of conflicts between the Bulgarian Empire and the Latin Empire, which was created during the Fourth Crusade in 1204. The wars were fought in the beginning of the 13th century. As a result of the conflicts the Bulgarian Empire expanded its territory taking control of most of the Balkan Peninsula while the influence of the Latin Empire was reduced to Constantinople and a few towns and islands. With the elimination of the Patriarchate of Constantinople by the Roman Catholic Crusaders, Bulgaria became the centre of the Orthodox Christianity.
|
| owl:sameAs | |
| dcterms:subject | |
| dbkwik:military/property/wikiPageUsesTemplate | |
| Date | |
| Commander | |
| Caption | - Map of the Balkans and Asia Minor c. 1207.
|
| Result | - Decisive Bulgarian victory;weakening of the Latin Empire and enlargement of the Bulgarian Empire
|
| combatant | |
| Place | - Bulgarian Empire, Latin Empire
|
| Conflict | |
| abstract | - The Bulgarian–Latin Wars were a series of conflicts between the Bulgarian Empire and the Latin Empire, which was created during the Fourth Crusade in 1204. The wars were fought in the beginning of the 13th century. The initial expansionist ambitions of the Latin Empire were crushed only one year after its foundation after the Battle of Adrianople in 1205, where its Emperor Baldwin I was captured and most of his knights perished. After that crucial defeat the Latin Empire had to defend itself against Bulgaria and the successor states of the Byzantine Empire, the Nicaean Empire in Asia Minor and the Despotate of Epirus in the Balkans. The rivalry between these three states postponed the end of the Latin Empire which occurred in 1261. As a result of the conflicts the Bulgarian Empire expanded its territory taking control of most of the Balkan Peninsula while the influence of the Latin Empire was reduced to Constantinople and a few towns and islands. With the elimination of the Patriarchate of Constantinople by the Roman Catholic Crusaders, Bulgaria became the centre of the Orthodox Christianity.
|
