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Michael VIII Palaiologos
Michael VIII Palaiologos
or
Palaeologus
(,
Mikhael VIII Palaiologos
; 1223 – 11 December 1282) reigned as Byzantine Emperor 1259–1282. Michael VIII was the founder of the
Palaiologan
dynasty that would rule the
Byzantine Empire
until the
Fall of Constantinople
in 1453. He recovered Constantinople from the
Latin Empire
in 1261 and transformed the
Empire of Nicaea
into a
restored Byzantine Empire
.
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