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The Latin kingdom of Constantinople is conquered by Michael VIII Palaeologus of Nicaea, a Byzantine aristocrat. The Byzantine rulers of Epirus and Thessaly refuse to acknowledge Michael as emperor, and separate Byzantine states continue to exist in Greece and Anatolia. Because Michael blinds and banishes John IV Lascaris, his cornier of Nicaea, Arsenius, the n ew patriarch of Constantinople, excommunicates the emperor.
Having previously been self-governing, the people of Greenland and Iceland swear allegiance to the king of Norway, who has sought to unite all Norwegian Viking settlements under his reign.
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