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Popular discontent in Constantinople leads to the deposition and murder of Alexius IV. Alexius V (Ducas) seizes the throne, and the Crusaders respond by sacking the city with such brutality that the Pope and the crusade movement are discredited. The Crusaders place Baldwin I (of Flanders) on the throne of the Latin kingdom that controls Constantinople until 1261. Boniface of Montferrat is made king of Thessalonica, and the Venetians gain control of important harbors and islands on their trade routes. Members of Byzantine royal families establish enclaves at Trebizond on the Black Sea, Epirus in northwest Greece, Nicaea in Anatolia, and elsewhere, but the Byzantine Empire never recovers from the sack of its capital.
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