Nicaean Empire

State · 1206–1278 CE · at its largest around 1260 CE

Largest of the Byzantine successor states after the Fourth Crusade, ruled by the Laskarids from Nicaea; it recaptured Constantinople in 1261 under Michael VIII Palaiologos.

On its lands while it lasted

• Nicaea (c. 1094–1261 CE): Capital of Sultanate of Rum (1094–1098), Nicaean Empire (1206–1261).
• Arta (c. 1206 CE): Capital of Despotate of Epirus (1206–1479).
• Andravida (c. 1206 CE): Capital of Principality of Achaea (1206–1432).
• Rumi (1207 CE – 1273 CE): A Persian poet, jurist and Sufi mystic who lived in Konya; his Masnavi is among the most celebrated works of Persian poetry, and his followers founded the Mevlevi order.
• Naxos (c. 1210 CE): Capital of Duchy of the Archipelago (1210–1313).

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