'Provintia Lakedemonie' and Laconian Chamareti in 1204 A New Perspective on ‘Partitio Romanie’
Abstract
The Fourth Crusade document known as Partitio Romanie outlines a partition of the Byzantine Empire but omits several imperial provinces. N. Oikonomides proposed that these territories were seditiously distanced from the short-lived regime imposed by the Crusaders in Constantinople in 1203. Provintia Lakedemonie, a province of Lacedaemonia attested only in this document and arguably the power-base of a Laconian “tyrant” named Chamaretus, provides a case-study particularly apposite for resuming this discussion, focusing on a range of multifarious problems assessed by Oikonomides.
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KOSKINAS, A. (2025). ’Provintia Lakedemonie’ and Laconian Chamareti in 1204: A New Perspective on ‘Partitio Romanie’. Byzantina Symmeikta, 35, 107–147. https://doi.org/10.12681/byzsym.37344
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