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Year 1261 ( MCCLXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar . Events. By place. Byzantine Empire. March 13 – Treaty of Nymphaeum: Emperor Michael VIII ( Palaiologos) signs a trade and defense agreement with the Republic of Genoa, to counterweight the Venetian presence in the region.
Reconquest of Constantinople. Part of Nicaean-Latin Wars. The Gate of the Spring ( Pege) or Selymbria Gate, through which Strategopoulos and his men entered Constantinople on 25 July 1261. Date. 1261. Location. Constantinople. Result. Nicaean victory.
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1261 ( MCCLXI) fue un año común comenzado en sábado del calendario juliano . Acontecimientos. Es destronado el último emperador del Imperio Latino de Constantinopla y restaurado el Imperio bizantino por Miguel VIII Paleólogo. Urbano IV sucede a Alejandro IV como papa. Groenlandia acepta la soberanía del rey noruego Haakon IV.
In 1261, while the bulk of the Latin Empire's military forces were absent from Constantinople, the Byzantine General Alexios Strategopoulos used the opportunity to seize the city with 600 troops. Thrace, Macedonia and Thessalonica had already been taken by Nicaea in 1246.
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Despite the eventual recovery of Constantinople in 1261, the Byzantine Empire remained a mere regional power for the final two centuries of its existence. Its remaining territories were progressively annexed by the Ottomans in the Byzantine–Ottoman wars over the 14th and 15th centuries.
In 1261, the Empire of Nicaea successfully restored the Byzantine Empire, under the rule of the Palaiologos dynasty . In 1453 the Ottoman sultan Mehmed the Conqueror captured Constantinople. The city was renamed Istanbul and became the capital of the Ottoman Empire (1453–1922).