Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Kingdom of Thessalonica
1204–1224
A Latin Crusader kingdom created after 1204 under Boniface of Montferrat, one of the Fourth Crusade's leaders, nominally subordinate to the Latin Emperor. It controlled Macedonia and Thessaly.
- Existed
- 1204–1224
- Shown on the map
- 1206–1226
- Peak area
- 33k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
A Latin Crusader kingdom created after 1204 under Boniface of Montferrat, one of the Fourth Crusade's leaders, nominally subordinate to the Latin Emperor. It controlled Macedonia and Thessaly. Boniface was killed by the Bulgarians in 1207. The weak kingdom, held for his young son Demetrios, was conquered by Theodore Komnenos Doukas of Epirus in 1224, ending Latin rule at Thessalonica.
Common questions
- What was the Kingdom of Thessalonica?
- A Latin Crusader kingdom created after 1204 under Boniface of Montferrat, one of the Fourth Crusade's leaders, nominally subordinate to the Latin Emperor. It controlled Macedonia and Thessaly.
- When did the Kingdom of Thessalonica exist?
- The Kingdom of Thessalonica existed 1204–1224. On this map it is drawn 1206–1226.
- How large was the Kingdom of Thessalonica?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Kingdom of Thessalonica covered about 33,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each polity as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia and the scholarship of Donald Queller, Thomas Madden and Jonathan Harris on the Fourth Crusade, whose post-conspiracy reading of 1204 this document follows. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Kingdom of Thessalonica en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Thessalonica
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