1340s in the Byzantine Empire, 14th-century Byzantine emperors, 14th-century Byzantine people, Byzantine-Ottoman wars, Fall of Constantinople, Andronikos II Palaiologos, Andronikos III Palaiologos, Manuel II Palaiologos, Gregory Palamas
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Empire, 14th-century Byzantine emperors, 14th-century Byzantine
people, Byzantine-Ottoman wars, Fall of Constantinople, Andronikos
II Palaiologos, Andronikos III Palaiologos, Manuel II Palaiologos,
Gregory Palamas, John VI Kantakouzenos, John IV Laskaris, John V
Palaiologos, John VII Palaiologos, Nicephorus Gregoras, George
Pachymeres, George of Trebizond, Gemistus Pletho, Theodore
Metochites, Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, Manuel Chrysoloras,
Byzantium under the Palaiologoi, Byzantine civil war of 1341-1347,
Barlaam of Seminara, Demetrios Kydones, Battle of Ankara, Alexios
Apokaukos, Syrgiannes Palaiologos, Zealots of Thessalonica, John
Kyparissiotes, Isidore of Kiev, Byzantine civil war of 1321-1328,
Alexios III of Trebizond, Jiajak Jaqeli, Köse Mihal, Battle of
Bapheus, Leontius Pilatus, Acropolitissa, wife of Michael of
Trebizond, Byzantine-Mongol alliance, John Angelos, Hranislav, Anna
of Savoy, Patriarch Philotheus I of Constantinople, Thomas II
Preljubovic, Joannes Actuarius, Alexios Philanthropenos, Byzantine
civil war of 1373-1379, Patriarch John XIV of Constantinople,
Michael Doukas Glabas Tarchaneiotes, Demetrios Chloros, Battle of
Rusokastro, Smiltsena Palaiologina, Andronikos IV Palaiologos,
Byzantine-Genoese War, Theodora Kantakouzene, Ottoman Interregnum,
Maximus Planudes, Anna of Trebizond, Queen of Georgia, Manuel III
of Trebizond, Irene Asanina, Irene of Montferrat, Simon Atumano,
Michael IX Palaiologos, Irene Palaiologina of Trebizond, Morea
revolt, Helena Kantakouzene, Theodora Palaiologina, Helena DragaS,
Patriarch Callistus I of Constantinople, Gregory Choniades, Eudokia
of Trebizond, Gulkhan-Eudokia of Georgia, Nicholas Cabasilas,
Theodora Palaiologina Synadene, Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat,
Andronikos Asen, Siege of Constantinople, Battle of Pelekanon,
Alexios Tzamplakon, Rita of Armenia, John UroS, Alexios Angelos
Philanthropenos, Siege of Nicaea, Irene of Trebizond, Irene
Gattilusio, Matthew Kantakouzenos, John II Doukas of Thessaly,
Michael Panaretos, Fall of Gallipoli, Manuel Kantakouzenos, Battle
of Skafida, George Kodinos, Anna Philanthropene, Gregory Akindynos,
Stephen Gabrielopoulos, Patriarch Isidore I of Constantinople,
Keratsa of Bulgaria, Manuel Moschopoulos, Demetrios I
Kantakouzenos, Manuel Angelos Philanthropenos, Siege of Nicomedia,
Demetrios Tzamplakon, Asomatianos Tzamplakon, Reconquest of
Gallipoli, Manuel Philes, Thomas Magister, Fall of Philadelphia,
Manuel Kalekas, Irene of Brunswick, Niketas Scholares, Michael
Kantakouzenos, Patriarch Isaias of Constantinople, Siege of Prusa,
Battle of Adrianople, Maximos Kausokalybites, Gregory Tifernas,
Patriarch Nephon I of Constantinople, Theodore Hyrtakenos, Fiorenza
I Sanudo, Lady of Milos, Nilus Cabasilas, Andronikos Palaiologos,
Matthew Blastares, Patriarch Nilus of Constantinople, Patriarch
Gerasimus I of Constantinople. Excerpt: The Byzantine Empire or
Byzantium, the term conventionally used since the 19th century to
describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire of the Middle Ages, was
ruled by the Palaiologoi dynasty in the period c. 1260 - 1453, from
the restoration of Greek rule to Constantinople by the usurper
Michael VIII Palaiologos to the Fall of Constantinople to the
Ottoman Empire. From the start, the Byzantine Empire faced numerous
problems. The Turks of Asia Minor had since 1263 been raiding and
expanding into Byzantine territory in Asia Minor. Anatolia, which
had form...
