The Decline and the End of the byzantine empire

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…new empire and kept the government in Constantinople Members of the court of the defeated Byzantine established bases in Asia Minor. The Byzantine recaptured Constantinpole in 1261, but Ottoman Turks invaded Asia Minor, and the Serbs advanced in the Balkans. Civil wars also weakened the empire. By the late 1300s, Constantinople and part of Greece were all that remained of the empire. The Empire finally ended in 1453, when Ottoman Turks captured the weakened empire. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**