Middle Ages
In the Middle-Ages, Greek Empire can refer to:
- Byzantine Empire
The term can also refer to any individual Byzantine successor state that was formed after the first fall of Constantinople in 1204:
- Empire of Trebizond
- Despotate of Epirus
- Empire of Nicaea
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