Peace of Caesarea

The Peace of Caesarea (1286) was the peace agreement signed between the Byzantine Empire and the Latin Empire, which put an end to the Great Latin War.
The peace negotiations were held in the aftermath of the Battle of Seleucia. Although Byzantine emperor Skantarios Laskaris had been killed in action, the battle was a decisive Byzantine victory which forced the Latins to retreat from Armenian Cilicia and allowed the Byzantines to occupy that territory, with local noble support. The two delegations met at the Byzantine military port of Caesarea Maritima, which had been under siege by the Latin Empire since the beginning of the war. The Byzantine delegation was led by Nikephoros Choumnos.
The terms enforced by the Byzantines on their opponents led to the annexation of Antioch to the Byzantine Empire, the independence of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia as a Byzantine protectorate and the dissolution of the Latin Emperor, with emperor Bohemond's regalia being surrendered to the Byzantines and taken back to Constantinople. In return, Byzantine ownership of Caesarea Maritima was reduced to a one-mile radius from the city walls.
The Peace of Caesarea has been regarded as an excessively harsh peace agreement, eventually resulting in the collapse of the Crusader states nine years later in the Fall of Tripoli. The unwillingness of the Byzantine emperors to reforge their alliance with the Latins would have far-reaching negative consequences for the Byzantine grand strategy in Syria in the future.
==The terms==
The most noble ambassadors of our lord Romanos, faithful to God, Emperor and Autocrat, Equal to the Apostles, Master of the Universe and Lord of Time, and his lord Bohemond Antioches, the most illustrious King of Syria and Jerusalem, gathered under the Lord's auspices and the blessing of the Virgin, hereby declare and announce;
*That Bohemond Antioches renounces all rights and claims to imperial dignity and rank, and surrenders his crowns and jewels to be sent to New Rome, the City of Constantine, home to the Emperors of past and present,
*That the Emperor recognizes his lord Leo of the Hethoum family as his rightful King of Armenia,
*That the Emperor takes direct possession of the city of Antioch and its environs,
*That the Emperor's possessions at Caesarea Maritima are redrawn and redistributed to the benefice of Bohemond Antioches.
Done and signed in the Year of the World 6793, the 1286th year of the Latin calendar, and the first of Emperor Romanos' reign.
==References==
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/before-the-fall.36591/page-40#post-8392570
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