page_title: Frankokratia
hierarchical_section_title: Frankokratia
context_page_description: The Frankokratia, also known as Latinokratia and, for the Venetian domains, Venetokratia or Enetokratia, was the period in Greek history after the Fourth Crusade, when a number of primarily French and Italian Crusader states were established on the territory of the dissolved Byzantine Empire.
  The term derives from the name given by the Orthodox Greeks to the Western European Latin Church Catholics: "rule of the Franks or Latins." The span of the Frankokratia period differs by region: the political situation proved highly volatile, as the Frankish states fragmented and changed hands, and the Greek successor states re-conquered many areas.
  With the exception of the Ionian Islands and some islands or forts which remained in Venetian hands until the turn of the 19th century, the final end of the Frankokratia in most of Greek lands came with the Ottoman conquest, chiefly in the 14th to 17th centuries, which ushered in the period known as "Tourkokratia".
context_section_description: The Frankokratia (Greek: Φραγκοκρατία, sometimes anglicized as Francocracy, lit. "rule of the Franks"), also known as Latinokratia (Greek: Λατινοκρατία, "rule of the Latins") and, for the Venetian domains, Venetokratia or Enetokratia (Greek: Βενετοκρατία or Ενετοκρατία, "rule of the Venetians"), was the period in Greek history after the Fourth Crusade (1204), when a number of primarily French and Italian Crusader states were established on the territory of the dissolved Byzantine Empire (see Partitio terrarum imperii Romaniae).
  The term derives from the name given by the Orthodox Greeks to the Western European Latin Church Catholics: "rule of the Franks or Latins." The span of the Frankokratia period differs by region: the political situation proved highly volatile, as the Frankish states fragmented and changed hands, and the Greek successor states re-conquered many areas.
  With the exception of the Ionian Islands and some islands or forts which remained in Venetian hands until the turn of the 19th century, the final end of the Frankokratia in most of Greek lands came with the Ottoman conquest, chiefly in the 14th to 17th centuries, which ushered in the period known as "Tourkokratia" ("rule of the Turks"; see Ottoman Greece).
caption: The Eastern Mediterranean c. 1450 AD, showing the Ottoman Empire, the surviving Byzantine empire (purple) and the various Latin possessions in Greece