Byzantine Empire under the Angelos dynasty

The Byzantine Empire was ruled by people from the Angelos dynasty from 1185 to 1204 AD. The Angelos family went into power after Andronikos I Komnenos was deposed. It could not stop invasions from the Turks by the Sultanate of Rum or the uprising and the creation of the Bulgarian Empire. It also lost the Dalmatian coast and many areas in the Balkans to Manuel I Komnenos of the Kingdom of Hungary.

There was much infighting by the elite in the empire. That made it lose much of its stability and military power. The Byzantine Empire was also not liked at the time was because of a massacre of Latins by the earlier dynasty. The empire was very weak  which led to the splitting of the empire in 1204, when soldiers from Fourth Crusade overthrew Emperor Alexios V Doukas.

Related pages
 Byzantine Empire under the Justinian dynasty

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