Despotate o Epirus

Despotate o Epirus
ca. 1205–1337/40 1356–1479
Coat o airms o the Tocco dynasty (last rulin dynasty)
The Laitin Empire, Empire o Nicaea, Empire o Trebizond, an the Despotate o Epirus, c. 1204
Status	Variously vassal o the Laitin Empire, the Empire o Nicaea an the Palaiologan Byzantine Empire, the Angevins, an the Ottoman Empire
Caipital	Arta (1205–1337/40, 1430–49), Ioannina (1356–1430), Angelokastron (1449–60)
Common leids	Greek
Releegion	Greek Orthodox Kirk
Govrenment	Despotic monarchy
Despot o Epirus
• 1205–1214	Michael I Komnenos Doukas
• 1448–1479	Leonardo III Tocco
Historical era	Heich Medieval
• Established	1205
• Byzantine conquest	1337/40
• Re-establishment bi Nikephoros II Orsini	1356
• Ottoman conquest o Vonitsa	1479
Precedit bi Succeedit bi Byzantium unner the Angeloi Byzantium unner the Palaiologoi Ottoman Empire
The day pairt o	Albanie Greece
^ Subsumed intae the Empire o Thessalonica, 1224–30; temporary Nicaean conquest, 1259–60 ^ In union wi the Coonty palatine o Cephalonia an Zakynthos efter 1416

The Despotate o Epirus (Greek: Δεσποτάτο της Ηπείρου) wis ane o the Greek successor states o the Byzantine Empire established in the eftermath o the Fowert Crusade in 1204 bi a brainch o the Angelos dynasty.