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 XIV CONTENTS CHAPTER LXII The Greek Emperors of Nice and Constmitinople — Elevation and Reign of Michael PalcEologus — His false Union with the Pope and the Latin Church — Hostile. Designs of Charles of Anjou — Revolt of Sicily — War of the Catalans in Asia and Greece — Revolutions and Present State of Athens 1204- 1222- 1255- 1259 1260 1261 1262- 1266- 1259- 1273- 1274- 1277- 1283 1266 1270 1280 1282 1303- 1204- PAGE Restoration of the Greek Empire 455 1222. Theodore Lascaris 455 1255. John Ducas Vataces 456 1259. Theodore Lascaris II. 458 Minority of John Lascaris 459 Family and Character of Michael Palseologus 460 His Elevation to the Throne ... 462 Michael Palasologus Emperor ... ... 464 Recovery of Constantinople 464 Return of the Greek Emperor ... ... ... ... ... 465 Palffiologus blinds and banishes the young Emperor ... ... 466 1268. Is excommunicated by the Patriarch Arsenius ... ... 467 1312. Schism of the Arsenites ... ... ... ... ... 468 1282. Reign of Michael Palseologus ... ... ... ... 469 1332. Reign of Andronicus the Elder ... ... ... ... 469 1277. His Union with the Latin Church 470 1282. His Persecution of the Greeks ... ... ... ... 472 The Union Dissolved 474 Charles of Anjou subdues Naples and Sicily ... 474 Threatens the Greek Empire ... 475 Palasologus instigates the Revolt of Sicily 476 The Sicilian Vespers ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 478 Defeat of Charles 479 1307. The Service and War of the Catalans in the Greek Empire 479 1456. Revolutions of Athens ... ... ... ... ... 483 Present State of Athens ... 485 CHAPTER LXIII Civil Wars, and Ruin of the Greek Empire — Reigns of Andronicus, the Elder and Younger, and John PalcEologus — Regency, Revolt, Reign, and Abdication of John Cantacuzene — Establishment of a Genoese Colony at Pera or Galata — Their Wars with the Empire and City of Constantinople 1282-1320. Superstition of Andronicus and the Times 1320 First Disputes between the Elder and Younger Andronicus 1321-1328. Three Civil Wars between the two Emperors 1325 Coronation of the Younger Andronicus 1328 The Elder Andronicus abdicates the Government 1332 His Death 1328-1341. Reign of Andronicus the Younger His two wives 487 489 491 491 492 493 494 494