palaiologos

Updated: June 3, 2025

Before the close of the fourteenth century the Ottoman sultan had transferred his capital to Adrianople, and had become immeasurably the strongest power in the Balkan peninsula. After that the end came quickly. At Constantinople the Romaic dynasty of Palaiologos had upheld a semblance of the Empire for more than a century after the Latin was expelled.

Nevill Forbes - The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey