Latin Crusades

The Latin Crusades were a series of wars carried out by the Latin Empire under the auspicies of the Roman Catholic Church, to claim land in the name of Christianity.

After the destruction of the Holy Roman Empire, the Latin Church was in need of a successor to the Roman Empire, which came in the form of the Latin Empire, which was established by a renegade French nobleman and his personal army who fought against the Black Empire. The Latins were given the blessing of the Church to conquerer as much land as they pleased, and carry out invasions of whomever they wished in the name of spreading the Church's power.

The Latin Crusades were one of the most devastating events to be carried out in the history of Europe and the Middle East, with the Latins being responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in both Europe and Asia, the mass destruction of the cultural heritage of much of the Balkan and Levant areas, and the loss of unprecedented information with the destruction of such sites as the House of Knowledge in Baghdad. The Crusades finally came to an end in 1407 when the Fatimid general Ali ibn Jamal al-Hilali launched an attack against them, annexing the entirety of the Levant in his attack. The Latins would later lose control over much of Anatolia when the Kurdish Ayyubids came to control Iraq and pushed into the peninsula. This would be followed by the revolt of the Greeks in 1424, with the Latins being reduced to a rump state in Thrace until their eventual fall in 1609.