Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Thessaly
drawn on the map 1272–1332
After 1268 John I Doukas, illegitimate son of Michael II of Epirus, ruled Thessaly (from Neopatras) as an autonomous Greek lordship (1268–1289), later held by his descendants (John II, to 1318). Its populations included Greeks and Vlachs (the region was sometimes called "Great Wallachia").
- Shown on the map
- 1272–1332
- Peak area
- 15k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
After 1268 John I Doukas, illegitimate son of Michael II of Epirus, ruled Thessaly (from Neopatras) as an autonomous Greek lordship (1268–1289), later held by his descendants (John II, to 1318). Its populations included Greeks and Vlachs (the region was sometimes called "Great Wallachia"). In the 14th century Thessaly fell in part to the Catalans (the Duchy of Neopatras, 1319–1394, attached to Athens), and later to Serbian rulers during Stefan Dušan's expansion, before Ottoman conquest in the late 14th century.
Common questions
- What was Thessaly?
- After 1268 John I Doukas, illegitimate son of Michael II of Epirus, ruled Thessaly (from Neopatras) as an autonomous Greek lordship (1268–1289), later held by his descendants (John II, to 1318). Its populations included Greeks and Vlachs (the region was sometimes called "Great Wallachia").
- When is Thessaly shown on the map?
- The border data draws Thessaly 1272–1332. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was Thessaly?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, Thessaly covered about 15,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each polity as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia and the scholarship of Donald Queller, Thomas Madden and Jonathan Harris on the Fourth Crusade, whose post-conspiracy reading of 1204 this document follows. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Thessaly en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thessaly
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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