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=== Latin Occupation (1204-1456)===
[[Image:Byzantium1204.JPG|right|thumb|220px|The beginning of ''[[w:Frangokratia|Frangokratia]]'': the division of the Byzantine Empire after the Fourth Crusade, 1204 AD.]]
*1204 [[Fourth Crusade]] [[Fall of Constantinople|sacks Constantinople]], laying waste to the city and stealing many [[relics]] and other items; [[Great Schism]] generally regarded as having been completed by this act; Venetians use the imperial [http[w://www.byzantium1200.com/pantocra.html Zeyrek Mosque|monastery of Christ Pantocrator]] as their headquardters in Constantinople.
*1204 Latin Occupation of mainland Greece under Franks and Venetians: the [[w:Latin Empire|Latin Empire]] of Constantinople, Latin [[w:Kingdom of Thessalonica|Kingdom of Thessalonica]], the [[w:Principality of Achaea|Principality of Achaea]], and the [[w:Duchy of Athens|Duchy of Athens]]; The Venetians controlled the [[w:Duchy of the Archipelago|Duchy of the Archipelago]] in the Aegean.
*1205 Latins annex Athens and convert the Parthenon into a Roman Catholic Church - ''Santa Maria di Athene'', later ''Notre Dame d'Athene''.
*1391-98 Ottoman Turks unsuccessfully besiege Constantinople for the first time.
*1422 [[w:Siege of Constantinople (1422)|Second unsuccessful Ottoman siege]] of Constantinople.
*1426 Death of New Martyr [[Ephraim of Nea Makri]](a "newly revealed" ("νεοφανείς") saint in 1950).
*1429 The Turks capture Thessaloniki.
*1430 The [[monks]] of [[Mount Athos]] submit to Sultan Murad II and keep their autonomy.
