Latin Empire

The Latin Empire was an imperial composite monarchy constituted of the crusader kingdoms of Syria, Armenian Cilicia and Jerusalem. The empire was established when its ruler Bohemond II was crowned Emperor of the East (Latin: Imperatoris Orientis) by Pope Nicholas III at Ravenna in 1281.
The title of Latin Emperor was officially renounced by Bohemond II at the Peace of Caesarea, signed in 1285 following the war against the Byzantine Empire, which had invaded Cilicia on the assumption that the Emperor of the East was intended to supplant the Roman Emperor in the East. In spite of the formal abdication of the imperial title in 1285, rulers of the House of Poitiers continued using the title on occasion. The Crusader States in the Levant went defunct in 1295, with the Fall of Tripoli.
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