Byzantine Reconstruction after the Latin Empire (1270s)

Timeline

1. 1271–1275Constantinople · ByzantiumOver sixty years of Latin rule had sharply reduced Constantinople's population; Michael VIII resettled people from Anatolia and the provinces of Asia Minor back into the capital, repaired walls, palaces, and churches, and restored court ceremonial, seeking to regain the empire's central standing.
2. 1272–1278Constantinople · ByzantiumThe empire redivided its provinces, restored tax and military-service registers, and rebuilt the bureaucracy on the basis of archives surviving the Latin occupation; at the same time it signed a trade treaty with Genoa, exchanging commercial concessions for naval support against Venetian remnants.
3. 1275–1280Macedonia · MacedoniaAfter repelling a Bulgarian invasion in Thrace, Byzantium continued contesting Macedonian towns with Serbia; though it failed to recover all lost ground, it secured the core European territories gained with the recapture of Constantinople, and Latin influence in the Balkans essentially faded.