Meanings
- historicalA duchy, encompassing the regions of Attica and Boeotia, which was established in Greece in 1205 after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade.
Strengthened by this alliance, Nerio then decided to move decisively against the Duchy of Athens.
1987, John Van Antwerp Fine Jr., “The Late Medieval Balkans”, in Paperback, University of Michigan Press, published 1994, page 4042 more examples
The Duchy of Athens was the most interesting and renowned of these Frankish kingdoms; and in one of his lectures PRESIDENT FELTON¹ points out the traces which this duchy has left here and there in modern literature.
1883, Marcius Willson, Robert Pierpont Wilson, Mosaics of Grecian History, Harper & Brothers, page 483The dukes of the Duchy of Athens came to serve as bailiffs in Achaia for the relentlessly anti-Byzantine Anjevin rulers of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Charles I (1262-85) and Charles II (1285-1309).
2002, D. Hupchick, The Balkans: From Constantinople to Communism, Springer, page 81
Translations
Catalan Ducat d'Atenes
- Ducat d'Ateneshistorical duchy in Greece
German Herzogtum Athen
- Herzogtum Athenhistorical duchy in Greece
Greek Δουκάτο των Αθηνών
- Δουκάτο των Αθηνών (Doukáto ton Athinón)historical duchy in Greece
Italian Ducato di Atene
- Ducato di Atenehistorical duchy in Greece
Polish Księstwo Aten
- Księstwo Atenhistorical duchy in Greece
Romanian ducatul Athenei
- ducatul Atheneihistorical duchy in Greece
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