Political instability and the rise of the Turks weakened the power and prestige of the empire, which led to a bitter end. ● 00:24 The Komnenian Dynasty 02:13 The collapse of the empire 03:18 The Palaiologan Dynasty 05:01 The fall of the empire ▪▪▪►Support the channel by SUBSCRIBING to new videos: http://bit.ly/ParMinutHistory ▪▪▪►FACEBOOK: / par.minut.historie ▪▪▪►TWITTER: / pm_historie ● Next part of the series - A Brief History of Europe: The Frankish Kingdom under the Merovingians • The Frankish Kingdom under the Merovingians... ● You might be interested in: Why did Hitler lose the war? • Why did Hitler lose the war? What, who... #PárMinutHistory / #PMHistory / párminuthistorie Music: For You / King • Video Description: / ncmepicmusic Inspiration: By Ender Güney Ultra Music provided by Non Copyrighted Music: • Video Music used: Ultra by Mattia Turzo & Jacopo Cicatiello / mattia-turzo-1 / thelittleorchestra Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... The fall of the Byzantine Empire (1081 - 1453) Political instability and the rise of the Turks weakened the power and prestige of the empire, whose path led through the Crusades and economic dependence on the western merchant republics to a bitter end. The Komnenos Dynasty Alexios Komnenos took control of Constantinople in 1081 and founded the Komnenos dynasty. He had to face the invasion of the Normans and later the Pechenegs in the Balkans. The Normans were repelled after the death of their leader with the help of the Venetians, who supported the emperor in exchange for trade privileges in the empire. Repelling the enemies in the Balkans prevented the collapse of the state and the emperor was able to start focusing on the economy. The devalued solidus was replaced by a new gold coin, the hyperpyron. He introduced a system of pronia, in which he lent land management to the nobles. He asked Pope Urban II for help against the Turks who were organizing raids on Byzantine territory. Alexios wanted to reconquer Asia Minor and hoped that the Pope would send him more mercenaries to strengthen his own army. In this he was terribly mistaken. Urban took full advantage of the opportunity to participate in the events in the eastern Mediterranean by organizing a crusade. The crusaders gathered at Constantinople swore to surrender the territories captured from the Turks to the Byzantine emperor. The first conflict occurred when Bohemond of Taranto refused to cede Antioch to the Byzantines. The following years brought disputes between the Byzantines and the Crusaders, loss of fame due to defeat by the Turks in the Battle of Myriokephalos, but also stability and economic prosperity, which was caused by the commercial activities of the Genoese and Venetians in the Aegean Sea. The collapse of the Komnenian Empire was replaced by the Angelic in 1185. The centralized government over the territory of the empire was collapsing and money was wasted senselessly. During the reign of Alexius III. Angelus, there were numerous uprisings, Turkish raids and attempts by the Bulgarians to restore an independent state. The Crusades to the Holy Land leading through Byzantine territory did not help the situation. On the contrary, in 1204, the Crusaders called the Byzantines Latins or Franks conquered Constantinople. They robbed, destroyed, murdered and thus irreparably damaged the relationship between Western and Eastern Christians. The victorious Latins founded new so-called Crusader states on the territory of the empire, e.g. The Latin and Nicaean Empires or the Kingdom of Thessalonica. The Palaiologos Dynasty The last Byzantine dynasty of the Palaiologos was established by the regent of the Nicaean Empire, Michael VIII Palaiologos. Michael conquered Constantinople in 1261, where he was crowned Byzantine emperor. However, the restored empire, like its capital, previously plundered by the Latins, was only a shadow of its former greatness. The threat of a new crusade by the Western states and an attempt to create an anti-Byzantine coalition led by the Sicilian king Charles of Anjou forced the emperor to negotiate a church union officially confirmed in 1274 at the Second Council of Lyon. The union was prevented from being implemented in everyday life by the strong opposition of the common people, the aristocracy and the Byzantine priests. The Byzantine Empire was economically dependent on the Italian trading republics. The western territories in Asia Minor were slowly occupied by the Turks, which Emperor Andronikos II was unable to prevent. not even despite the call of the Catalan Company (western mercenaries) in 1303. By 1337, the Ottoman Turks gradually controlled most of northwestern Anatolia, including the cities of Bursa, Nicaea and Nicomedia. After the conquests of the Kingdom of Serbia and the civil war, an epidemic of the Black Death struck Byzantium. The fall of the empire Instead of trying to stop the Ottomans, Emperor John V had to f