Die Partitio terrarum imperii Romaniae (lateinisch „Länderteilung des Romanischen Reiches“),[1] oder Partitio regni Graeci[2] („Teilung des Griechischen Reiches“), war ein nach der Eroberung von Konstantinopel (1204) geschlossenes Abkommen zwischen den Teilnehmern des Vierten Kreuzzugs über die Teilung des Byzantinischen Reichs. Es entstanden das Lateinische Kaiserreich sowie als byzantinische Nachfolgestaaten das Kaiserreich Nikaia, das Kaiserreich Trapezunt sowie das Despotat Epirus. Neben dem Chrysobull des Alexios III. von 1198 stellt die Partitio Romaniae die Hauptquelle für die administrative Unterteilung des Byzantinischen Reichs dar. Sie gibt auch Auskunft über die Gebiete, welche zu dieser Zeit noch unter byzantinischer Herrschaft standen.[3]
Überlieferung
BearbeitenDer Vertrag ist in mehreren venezianischen Manuskripten überliefert: im Liber Albus (fols. 34ff.), Liber Pactorum (Vol. I, fols. 246ff.; Vol. II, fols. 261ff.), Codex Sancti Marci (284, folio 3), und in den Muratorii codices Ambrosiani I und II. Die erste kritische Ausgabe der Texte erstellten 1856 Gottlieb Tafel und Georg Thomas für die damalige Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien.[4]. 1965 veröffentlichte A. Carile eine Textausgabe mit Kommentar.[5][6]
Hintergrund
BearbeitenIm März 1204, kurz vor der Eroberung von Konstantinopel (1204), schlossen Enrico Dandolo, der Dogen von Venedig, Markgraf Bonifatius von Montferrat, Graf Balduin I. von Flandern und Graf Ludwig von Blois ein vorläufiges Abkommen, in welchem sie die Länder des Byzantinischen Reichs zukünftig unter sich aufteilten.[7] Der Text des Abkommens ist unter den Akten von Papst Innozenz III. überliefert.[8] Demzufolge würden die Venezianer ihre vom oströmischen Kaiser verliehenen Privilegien weiter behalten. Ein zu gleichen Anteilen aus Venezianern und Kreuzfahrern zusammengesetztes Kollegium sollte nach der Eroberung Konstantinopels den Kaiser des Lateinischen Kaiserreichs wählen. Diesem stünden ein Viertel des gesamten byzantinischen Gebietes zu, sowie der Blachernen- und Bukoleon-Palast in der Stadt. Die übrigen drei Viertel sollten zu gleichen Teilen zwischen Venedig und den übrigen Kreuzfahrern aufgeteilt werden.[9] Am 9. Mai wurde Balduin von Flandern zum Lateinischen Kaiser gewählt. Dem Chronisten Gottfried von Villehardouin zufolge sollte Bonifatius die Gebiete um den Bosporus und das Marmarameer „nach der Türkei hin“ und „die griechische Insel“ erhalten. Um den offenbar Unzufriedenen zu besänftigen, überließ Balduin ihm stattdessen das Königreich Thessaloniki.[10]
Nach Heyd, Zakythinos und Carlie Ende September oder Anfang Oktober 1204, nach Oikonomides gleich nach der Eroberung im April oder Mai 1204 verfasste ein Kommittee von 12 Venezianern und 12 anderen Kreuzfahrern das Abkommen.[11] Aufgrund ihrer genauen Landeskenntnis spielte Venedig in den Verhandlungen die Hauptrolle. Viele der letztlich beschlossenen Übereinkünfte gehen auf einen Chrysobull des byzantinischen Kaisers Alexios III Angelos von 1198 zurück.[12] Demnach erhielt der lateinische Kaiser die direkte Kontrolle über ein Viertel des byzantinischen Territoriums, drei Achtel des Reichsgebiets sowie drei Achtel des Satdtgebiets von Konstantiniopel einschließlich der Hagia Sophia standen Venedig zu, die restlichen drei Achtel sollten den anderen Kreuzfahrer-Anführern zugeteilt werden. Auf dem Boden dieser teilung wäre venedig zur dominierenden Macht im Lateinischen Reich aufgestiegen. Entsprechend nannte sich der Doge von Venedig nun: „Dominator quartae et dimidiae partis totius Romaniae – Herrscher von anderthalb Viertelteilen ganz Romaniens“.
Bestimmungen zu einzelnen Gebieten
BearbeitenDie Territorien wurden aufgeteilt in den Anteil des Dogen und der Commune Veneciarum (pars domini Ducis et communis Venetiae), dem Anteil des lateinischen Kaisers (pars domini Imperatoris), und dem der Pilger oder Kreuzfahrer (pars Peregrinorum).
Lateinischer Text | Übersetzung | Anteil | Region | Kommentar |
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Civitas Archadiopoli. Missini. Bulgarofigo. Pertinentia[13] Archadiopoli.[14] | Die Städte Arcadiopolis,[15] Mesene,[16] Bulgarophygon,[17] als teil der episkepsis von Arcadiopolis | Venedig | Ostthrakien | Im Chrysobull von 1198 als Teil der Episkepsis von Messene, Arcadiopolis und Bulgarophygon.[18] |
Pertinentia Putis/Pucis et NicodimiVorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of PoutzaVorlage:Sfn and "Nicodimi" | Venice | Eastern Thrace | "Nicodimi" remains unidentified; Carile suggested an identification with the town and bishopric of Nike.Vorlage:Sfn |
Civitas Heraclee/Yraclee.Vorlage:Sfn | the city of Heraclea PerinthusVorlage:Sfn | Venice | Eastern Thrace | |
Pertinentia Chalkidos, cum civitate Rodosto et Panido, cum omnibus, que sub ipsis. | the episkepsis of ChalcisVorlage:Sfn with the cities of RaidestosVorlage:Sfn and Panidos with all their dependencies | Venice | Eastern Thrace | |
Civitas Adrianopoli cum omnibus, que sub ipsa.Vorlage:Sfn | the city of AdrianopleVorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn with its dependencies | Venice | Eastern Thrace | |
Pertinentia Gani.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of GanosVorlage:Sfn | Venice | Eastern Thrace | |
CasaleVorlage:Efn Chortocop[l]i. Casalia Chotriki, Kerasea, Miriofitum.Vorlage:Sfn | the settlements of Chortokopeion, Chortriki, Kerasia,Vorlage:Sfn and MyriophytonVorlage:Sfn | Venice | Eastern Thrace | Chortokopeion (Χορτοκόπειον) is known from a document from Mount Athos dating to the mid-11th century, but its exact location remains unknown. It was probably located east of Apros, on a crossing of the roads leading from Gallipoli to Adrianople and from Kypsela to Raidestos.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn Chotriki (Χοτρικί) otherwise unattested, possibly identical with Vorlage:Ill.Vorlage:Sfn |
Pertinentia Peristasi.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of PeristasisVorlage:Sfn | Venice | Eastern Thrace | |
Pertinentia Brachioli.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of Branchialion | Venice | Eastern Thrace | Location not certain, but close to modern İnceburun. Attested in the 1198 chrysobull, a Catalan portolan from Vorlage:Circa, and in later Byzantine sources.Vorlage:Sfn |
Casalia de Raulatis et Examilii. Emporium Sagudai.Vorlage:Sfn | the settlements of Raulaton, Hexamilion,Vorlage:Sfn and Sagoudaous | Venice | Thracian Chersonese | Location of Raulaton (χωρίον τῶν Ῥαουλάτων) not certain, probably close to Hexamilion at the base of the Thracian Chersonese (Gallipoli peninsula). Its name likely refers to the Raoul family.Vorlage:Sfn The location of the settlement (emporion) of Sagoudaous (Σαγουδάους) or Sagoude (Σαγούδη) is attested as a port and warehouse in 1152. Its location is not clear, but must have lain in the northern part of the Gallipoli Peninsula, or near Ainos.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn |
Pertinentia GallipoliVorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of KallipolisVorlage:Sfn | Venice | Thracian Chersonese | |
Lazu et LactuVorlage:Sfn | Lazou and Laktou | Venice | Eastern Thrace | Both Lazou (Λάζου) and Laktou (Λάκτου) are otherwise unattested; from their location in the text they must have been in the neighbourhood of Kallipolis.Vorlage:Sfn |
Pertinentia de Muntimanis et Sigopotamo, cum omnibus, que sub ipsis.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of Mountimanoi and the Sigos River with their dependencies | Venice | Thracian Chersonese | The ἐπίσκεψις τῶν Μουντιμάνων is not elsewhere attested, but was probably located in the south of the Thracian Chersonese.Vorlage:Sfn The Sigos River is likely to be identified with the modern Kavakaltı Dere or, less likely, the Çeşme Dere, in the southern Gallipoli Peninsula.Vorlage:Sfn |
Provintia Lakedemonie, micra et megali episkepsis, i.e. parva et magna providentia. Kalabrita.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Lacedaemonia and the minor and major episkepseis therein, and the town of Kalavryta | Venice | Peloponnese | The province of Lacedaemonia is not otherwise known, but is evidently equivalent to the region of Laconia.Vorlage:Sfn |
Ostrovos.Vorlage:Sfn | the town of Ostrovos | Venice | Western Macedonia | Most likely the namesake town in Macedonia, but also possibly an unknown location of the same name in the Peloponnese.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn |
Oreos. Caristos.Vorlage:Sfn | the towns of Oreos and Karystos | Venice | Euboea | Karystos is already mentioned in the 1198 chrysobull, but Oreos, other than being a bishop's seat, was undistinguished at the time.Vorlage:Sfn |
Andrus.Vorlage:Sfn | the island of Andros | Venice | Cyclades | |
Egina et Culuris.Vorlage:Sfn | the islands of Aegina and Salamis | Venice | Saronic Gulf | The islands of Aegina and Salamis were greatly impoverished and havens for pirates.Vorlage:Sfn |
Zachintos et Kefalinia.Vorlage:Sfn | the islands of Zakynthos and Cephalonia | Venice | Ionian Islands | Cephalonia and Zakynthos had been captured already during the last Norman invasion in 1185, and are usually held to have since then formed a county palatine, initially under Margaritus of Brindisi, and ruled in 1204 by Matthew Orsini.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn However, Orsini's rule is not based on documentary evidence, but on Karl Hopf's conjectures, and A. Kiesewetter proposes that Maio di Monopoli (alias Matthew Orsini) may have taken control of the islands in 1206 from the Byzantines, who had recovered them since Margaritus's demise in 1294.[19] |
Provintia Colonie Conchilari. Canisia.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Koloneia, Chlerenon, and Kanina | Venice | Epirus | Tafel and Thomas proposed a series of emendations and identifications to "Colonie cum Cycladibus. Nisia.", with "Colonie" possibly a reference to the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion (after which Cape Sounion was known as Capo Colonne), "Cycladibus" a reference to the Cyclades, and "Nisia" identified as Naxos island.Vorlage:Sfn This was rejected by Th. Menke and Jean Longnon, who emended the text to read "Provintia Colonie cum Chilari, Canisia.", i.e. Koloneia in Epirus, Kjari, and Konitsa, while Dionysios Zakythinos proposed identifying "Chilari" with Chlerenon, and "Canisia" with Kanina.Vorlage:Sfn |
Pertinentia Lopadi.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of "Lopadi" | Venice | Aegean Islands or Northern Asia Minor (?) | Tafel and Thomas proposed identifying Lopadi as the island of Levitha,Vorlage:Sfn but according to Zakythinos it is equally likely to refer to Lopadion in Mysia, which is attested as an episkepsis in the 1198 chrysobull, since portions of the text have evidently been moved around so that they no longer correspond to their original arrangement by geographic proximity.Vorlage:Sfn Carile finds the identification with Lopadion less likely, however.Vorlage:Sfn |
Orium Patron et Methonis, cum omnibus suis, scilicet pertinentiis de Brana. Pertinentia de Cantacuzino, et cum villis Kyreherinis, filie Imperatoris Kyrialexii, cum villis de Molineti, de Pantocratora, et de ceteris monasteriorum, sive quibusdam villis, que sunt in ipsis, scilicet de micra et megali episkepsi, i.e. parva et magna pertinentia.Vorlage:Sfn | the horionVorlage:Efn of Patras and Methone with its dependencies, namely the estates of the Branas and Kantakouzenos families, the estates of kyra Irene, daughter of Emperor kyr Alexios III, and the estates of "Molineti", of "Pantokrator" and other monasteries | Venice | Peloponnese | The horion of Patras and Methone probably occupied the entire western half of the Peloponnese.Vorlage:Sfn The name "Molineti" is evidently associated with windmills; two medieval locations correspond to this, both of them in modern Pylia.Vorlage:Sfn The location or identity of "Pantokrator" are unknown.Vorlage:Sfn |
Nicopolla, cum pertinentia de Arta, de Achello, de Anatolico, de Lesianis, et de ceteris archondorum et monasteriorum.Vorlage:Sfn | Nicopolis with the episkepseis of Arta and Achelous, of Anatoliko, Lesiana, "and of other archons and monasteries"Vorlage:Sfn | Venice | Epirus | The "other archons" are probably those mentioned in the 1198 chrysobull, namely members of the imperial dynasty: the "most fortunate" sebastokratores and Caesars, the daughters of the Emperor and the Augusta (Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera, wife of Alexios III).Vorlage:Sfn |
Provintia Dirachii et Arbani, cum chartolaratis de Glavinitza, de Bagenetia.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of DyrrhachiumVorlage:Sfn and Arbanon,Vorlage:Sfn with the chartoularataVorlage:Efn of GlavinitsaVorlage:Sfn and VagenetiaVorlage:Sfn | Venice | Epirus | Dyrrhachium was occupied by Venice in 1205 and became the centre of the short-lived "Duchy of Durazzo". |
Provintia de Gianina. Provintia Drinopoli.Vorlage:Sfn | the provinces of Ioannina and Dryinopolis | Venice | Epirus | |
Provintia Achridi.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Ohrid | Venice | Western Macedonia | |
Leukas et Coripho.Vorlage:Sfn | the islands of Lefkada and Corfu | Venice | Ionian Islands | |
A Porta aurea et Blachernali et occidentali Steno usque ad Midiam et Agathopoli. Similiter et ab ipsa civitate Vizoi usque ad Zurlo et TheodoropoliVorlage:Sfn | from the Golden Gate and Blachernae and the western shore of the Bosporus, up to Mideia and Agathopolis on the Black Sea coast. Likewise from Bizye to Tzurulon and Theodoropolis on the Sea of Marmara | Emperor | Eastern Thrace | The points mentioned in the beginning define the circumference of Constantinople, from the main ceremonial gate in the southwestern part of the land walls to the northwestern quarter of Blachernae on the shore of the Golden Horn, and the "Narrows" (Stenon) of the Bosporus.Vorlage:Sfn |
Provintia Optimati.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Optimatoi | Emperor | Northern Asia Minor | The theme of the Optimatoi encompassed the parts of Asia Minor closest to Constantinople, with Nicomedia as its capital. Its mention apart from Nicomedia in 1204 may be the result of a confusion by the Latin writers, but both the rest of the Partitio and the 1198 chrysobull indicate a breaking up of the province sometime in the 12th century into smaller districts. In 1198, a separate "province of Mesothynia" is mentioned along with the "province of Nicomedia", which is absent in 1204.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn |
Provintia Nicomidie.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Nicomedia | Emperor | Northern Asia Minor | |
Provintia Tharsie, Plusiade, et Metavolis cum Servochoriis, et cum omnibus, que sub ipsis.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Tarsia, Plousias, and Metabole, along with Servochoria and all their dependencies | Emperor | Northern Asia Minor | Tarsia, on the eastern bank of the Sangarios, and Metabole, probably south of Lake Sapanca, historically belonged to the Optimatoi, whereas Plousias to the Bucellarian Theme. The "Servochoria" (Σερβοχώρια) is the area where Emperor John II Komnenos settled the Serbs in 1129/30.Vorlage:Sfn |
Provintia Paflagonie et Vucellarii.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Paphlagonia and the Bucellarians | Emperor | Northern Asia Minor | The Bucellarian Theme was established Vorlage:Circa, and Paphlagonia was created as a distinct theme from it sometime in the early 9th century. It is likely that the themes of the Bucellarians and Paphlagonia had been administratively unified—unclear when or for how long—for defensive purposes, a recurrent practice in Byzantine history.Vorlage:Sfn |
Provintia Oenoei et Sinopii et Pabrei.Vorlage:Sfn | Oenoe and Sinope and Pavrae | Emperor | Northern Asia Minor | Formerly part of the Armeniac Theme, these three important coastal cities are often mentioned in conjunction with Turkish raids during the 12th century.Vorlage:Sfn |
Mitilini.Vorlage:Sfn | the island of Lesbos | Emperor | Aegean Islands | |
Limni cum Skiro, et que sunt infra Avidum insule, scilicet Priconiso et cetera, cum Strovilo.Vorlage:Sfn | the islands of Lemnos and Skyros, and the islands this side of Abydos (i.e., in the Sea of Marmara), namely Proconnesus and the others, with Strobilos | Emperor | Aegean Islands and Sea of Marmara | |
Samos et Tinos cum Samandrakio.Vorlage:Sfn | the islands of Samos and Tinos with Samothrace | Emperor | Aegean Islands | |
Provintia de Pilon, de Pithion, de Keramon.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Pylae, Pythia, and Kerama | Emperor | Asia Minor | In the 1198 chrysobull, the episkepsis of Pylae and Pythia is mentioned, formerly part of the theme of the Optimatoi. The identity and location of Kerama is unknown, unless it is a misspelling for Germia, attested as a toponym in the area of Mysia.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn |
Provintia Malagini.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Malagina | Emperor | Northern Asia Minor | Malagina was the first army assembly point and camp (aplekton) for imperial expeditions in Asia Minor, and the site of major imperial horse farms. It was raised to a distinct administrative unit under the Komnenian emperors, due to its importance and exposure to Turkish raids.Vorlage:Sfn |
Provintia Achirai.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Achyraous | Emperor | Western Asia Minor | The province is only mentioned in the 1198 chrysobull and Partitio, and probably encompassed the northern part of the Thracesian Theme.Vorlage:Sfn |
Provintia Adramitii, de Chilariis et de Pergamis. Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Adramyttium, Chliara, and Pergamon | Emperor | Western Asia Minor | According to Niketas Choniates, the theme of Neokastra originally encompassed the cities of Adramyttium, Chliara, and Pergamon, after they were refortified by Manuel I Komnenos. However, these cities are mentioned separately from the province both in the 1198 chrysobull and in the Partitio.[20] Helene Ahrweiler interpreted the evidence to suggest that Neokastra did indeed originally encompass the three cities, but that in 1198 Adramyttion may have formed a separate district, and that the separation between the cities and the province evidenced in the Partitio was the result of a copyist's error.[21] |
Provintia Neocastron.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Neokastra | Emperor | Western Asia Minor | |
Provintia Milasi et Melanudi.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Mylasa and Melanoudion | Emperor | Western Asia Minor | |
Provintia Laodikie et Meandri, cum pertinentia Sampson et Samakii, cum Contostephanatis, cum Camizatis et ceteris atque Chio.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Laodicea and the Maeander, with the district of Sampson and Samakion, with the estates of the Kontostephanos and the Kamytzes families and other places, as well as Chios | Emperor | Western Asia Minor and Aegean Islands | Some scholars, including Carile,Vorlage:Sfn emend "Samakii" to "ta Malachii", identifying it with the Byzantine village of Malachiou (possibly modern Atburgazı) near Mycale, but as Peter Thonemann points out, the locality of Samakion is mentioned in the Life of St. Lazaros of Galesion.Vorlage:Sfn |
Provintia micra et megali Brissi.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Little and Great Brysis | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | |
Pertinentia Gehenna.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of GehennaVorlage:Sfn | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | |
Civitas Panfili, cum omnibus, que sub ipsa.Vorlage:Sfn | the city of PamphylosVorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn with all its dependencies | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | |
Pertinentia Culi.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of KouleVorlage:Sfn | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | The settlement of Koule (Κούλη) is mentioned by Anna Komnene as lying to the east of Pamphylos.Vorlage:Sfn |
Civitas Apri, cum omnibus, que sub ipsa.Vorlage:Sfn | the city of AprosVorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn with all its dependencies | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | |
Didimochium, cum omnibus, que sub ipsa.Vorlage:Sfn | the city of DidymoteichonVorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn with all its dependencies | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | |
Pertinentia de Kipsali/Cypsellam.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of KypselaVorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | |
Pertinentia de Garelli.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of GarellaVorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | |
Pertinentia de Lebuecho/Lebucto.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of KedouktosVorlage:Sfn | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | Tafel and Thomas proposed the emendation to "Ceducto", i.e., the plain of Kedouktos.Vorlage:Sfn |
Pertinentia de Bira.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of BeraVorlage:Sfn | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | Bera was chiefly notable for the Theotokos Kosmosoteira Monastery established by the sebastokrator Isaac Komnenos; in the 1150s it was still described as void of people or dwellings.Vorlage:Sfn |
Pertinentia Macri et Traianopoli, cum casali de Brachon.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of MakriVorlage:Sfn and Trajanopolis,Vorlage:Sfn with the settlement of Brachon | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | The area traditionally belonged to the theme of Macedonia, with Makri lying at the boundary with the theme of Boleron to the west.Vorlage:Sfn Brachon is otherwise unknown; as a misreading of "Blachon", it may refer to the Monastery of the Saviour "of Blachon" near Ainos).Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn |
Pertinentia Scifis et Pagadi, cum omnibus, que sub ipsa.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of "Scifis" and "Pagadi" with its dependencies | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | The identification of Scifis and Pagadi (probably from πηγάδι, "well") is disputed. Tafel and others equated Scifis with Tzympe, which then would locate Pagadi between Tzympe and Madytos,Vorlage:Sfn while others suggest locating both on the eastern bank of the lower Maritsa river near Ainos.Vorlage:Sfn Zakythinos proposed an identification of Scifis with the "village of Sophous" attested in the typikon of the Theotokos Kosmosoteira Monastery.Vorlage:Sfn |
Pertinentia Maditi, cum omnibus, que sub ipsa.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of MadytosVorlage:Sfn with its dependencies | Crusaders | Thracian Chersonese | |
Icalotichas, cum omnibus, que sub ipsa, i.e. Anafartus, Tinsaccos, Iplagia, Potamia et Aacros/Aatios, cum omnibus, que sub ipsa.Vorlage:Sfn | Koila Teichos with its dependencies: Anaphartos,Vorlage:Sfn Tinsakkos, Plagia,Vorlage:Sfn Potamia, and Aatios or Aacros | Crusaders | Thracian Chersonese | Koila Teichos is most likely identifiable with the Long Wall running at the base of the Thracian Chersonese at Agora. Zakythinos proposed an identification with the Anastasian Wall, but this does not fit the geography.Vorlage:Sfn The exact identity or locations of Tinsakkos,Vorlage:Sfn Potamia,Vorlage:Sfn and Aacros/AatiosVorlage:Sfn are unknown, but lay on the Chersonese, just as the remaining locations. |
Pertinentia de Phitoto/Plit[h]oto.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of "P[l]ithoto" | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | Exact location unknown, possibly identical with Polyboton near modern Keşan.Vorlage:Sfn |
Pertinentia de Galanatom.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of Galataria | Crusaders | Thracian Chersonese? | Exact location unknown, possibly a bishopric and town near Kallipolis.Vorlage:Sfn |
Molinoto/Moliboton.Vorlage:Sfn | the town of Molinoto/Moliboton | Crusaders | Thracian Chersonese? | Exact location unknown, probably on the Thracian Chersonese; earlier suggestions identified it with Polyboton or the small monastery of St. Nicholas near the Golden Gate, but do not fit the context.Vorlage:Sfn |
Pertinentia de Jalocastelli/Hyalo Castelli.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of Hyelokastellion | Crusaders | Thracian Chersonese? | The name Ὑελοκαστέλλιον means "glass castle". Its exact location is unknown, but is attested as a coastal site during the revolt of Andronikos Lapardas in 1183. Likely on the Thracian Chersonese.Vorlage:Sfn |
Pertinentia Sirolefki/Sitoleuchi.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of "Sirolefki" | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | Tafel and Thomas suggested an identification with Silta near Selymbria,Vorlage:Sfn but this does not fit the geographical context, which suggests proximity to Ainos.Vorlage:Sfn |
Catepanikium de Eno, cum apothikis.Vorlage:Sfn | the katepanikion of Ainos,Vorlage:Sfn along with its warehouses | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | The warehouses denoted the public warehouses (analogous to the old Roman horrea), managed by the fisc.Vorlage:Sfn |
Catepanikium de Russa, cum omnibus, que sub ipsa.Vorlage:Sfn | the katepanikion of Rusion,Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn with its dependencies | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | |
Pertinentia de Ag[r]iovivario.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of Hagios Bibarios | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | The name probably derives from agrion bibarion, "wild fish-lake", indicating a location at or near the modern Lake Gala National Park.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn |
Provintia Vardarii.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of the Vardar River | Crusaders | Western Macedonia | The province is otherwise unattested. According to Zakythinos, it appears to be related to the Vardariotes, a group of Turkic people, mostly Magyars, settled in the area in previous centuries.Vorlage:Sfn |
Provintia Verye, cum cartularatis tam Dobrochubisti, quam et Sthlanitza.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Veroia with the chartoularata of Dobrochoubista and Sthlanitsa | Crusaders | Western Macedonia | Tafel and Thomas suggested emending Dobrochubista to Drogubitia,Vorlage:Sfn and were followed by some other scholars, but the district is well attested elsewhere, including in the 1198 chrysobull.Vorlage:Sfn Sthlanitsa is likewise attested by Anna Komnene and Theophylact of Ohrid.Vorlage:Sfn |
Pertinentia Girocomion.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis allotted to the upkeep of the old-age care homes | Crusaders | Western Macedonia | |
Pertinentia Platamonos.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of Platamon | Crusaders | Western Macedonia/Thessaly | |
Pertinentia Moliscu et Moglenon.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of Moliskos and Moglena | Crusaders | Western Macedonia | |
Pertinentia Prilapi et Pelagonie cum Stano.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Prilapos and Pelagonia with Stanos | Crusaders | Western Macedonia | Stanos as a toponym is well attested and mentioned frequently along with Pelagonia, Prilapos, Soskos, and Moliskos.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn |
Presepe et Dodecanisos.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Prespes and the Cyclades | Crusaders | Western Macedonia and Aegean Islands | The term "Dodekanesos" ("Twelve Islands") first appears in Byzantine sources in the 8th century as a naval command encompassing the southern Aegean Sea. The term remained in use throughout the medieval period for the Cyclades, and only in the 19th/20th centuries became transferred to the modern Dodecanese.Vorlage:Sfn Its placement in the text is unusual, lying between areas of continental Greece; perhaps the result of a scribal error or, according to Jean Longnon, a result of a trade, whereby Ostrovos, originally claimed by the Crusaders, and the Cyclades, claimed by Venice, were exchanged (apart from Andros and Tinos), thus explaining the unexpected placement of both entries in the text of the treaty.Vorlage:Sfn |
Orion Larisse.Vorlage:Sfn | the horion of Larissa | Crusaders | Thessaly | |
Provintia Blachie cum personalibus et monasterialibus in eis existentibus.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Vlachia with the private and monastic properties existing in itVorlage:Sfn | Crusaders | Thessaly | |
Provintia Servion.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Servia | Crusaders | Western Macedonia | |
Provintia Castorie et provintia Deavoleos.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Kastoria and the province of Deabolis | Crusaders | Western Macedonia | |
Pertinentia Imperatricis, scilicet Vesna, Fersala, Domocos, Revenica, duo Almiri, cum Demetriadi.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of the Empress, namely Vesaina,Vorlage:Sfn Pharsala,Vorlage:Sfn Domokos,Vorlage:Sfn Grebenika or Rebenika, the two Halmyroi,Vorlage:Sfn with DemetriasVorlage:Sfn | Crusaders | Thessaly | The Empress is probably Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera, wife of Alexios III.Vorlage:Sfn Grebenika or Rebenika is probably a location at or near the river Rebenikos, originating in the Cynoscephalae Hills in northern Thessaly.Vorlage:Sfn) |
Pertinentia Neopatron.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of NeopatrasVorlage:Sfn | Crusaders | Thessaly | Not previously mentioned as an administrative unit.Vorlage:Sfn |
Provintia Velechative/Velicati.Vorlage:Sfn | the province of Velechativa | Crusaders | Thessaly | Mentioned in the 1198 chrysobull, tentatively equated with the area of settlement of the Belegezites near Demetrias and Phthiotic Thebes. Zakythinos proposes an additional identification with the toponym of "Levachata", attested in 1289 near Halmyros.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn |
Pertinentia Petritoniclis/Petrion Vietts/videlicet. Dipotamon. Cala[n]con/Talantum.Vorlage:Sfn | the episkepsis of Petrai, namely Dipotamon and Atalanti? | Crusaders | Thessaly | Tafel and Thomas emend the beginning to read "Petrion. Kelliae.", identifying the former with the Nea Petra Monastery and the latter with the area in Mount Ossa mentioned by Anna Komnene.Vorlage:Sfn Zakythinos rejected this reading in favour of the videlicet ("namely") of the Ambrosianus I manuscript.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn The location of Petrai (plural) is unknown.Vorlage:Sfn "Dipotamon" (Διπόταμον, "Two Rivers") may be located between the rivers Pineios and Rabenikos in northern Thessaly, and perhaps to be identified with the kleisoura (defile) of Libotanion, known from the time of Alexios I Komnenos.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn Tafel and Thomas identify Calacon as the genitive of Galaza, a suffragan of the Metropolis of Neopatras,Vorlage:Sfn while Zakythinos suggests either the reading Kalamos, or, from the variant "Talantum" in the Codex Sancti Marci, Atalanti.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn |
Pazi/Pazima et Radovisidon, et orium Athenarum, cum pertinentia Megarum.Vorlage:Sfn | Pazi/Pazima and Radobisdion,Vorlage:Sfn and the horion of Athens, with the episkepsis of MegaraVorlage:Sfn | Crusaders | Thessaly and Attica | The identity and location of Pazi/Pazima are unknown.Vorlage:Sfn Tafel and Thomas suggest the town and bishopric of Stagoi in Thessaly,Vorlage:Sfn while Carile suggested the bishopric of Patzouna, known only as a suffragan of the Metropolis of Larissa.Vorlage:Sfn |
Observations
BearbeitenBased on the forms of the names, the source material for the compilation of the treaty was in Greek, while the prevalence of fiscal terms like episkepsis points to the use of the cadastral and tax registers of the central Byzantine administration.Vorlage:SfnVorlage:Sfn
Several areas are left out of the Partitio. In Europe, the lands of Macedonia and Western Thrace, between the Maritsa and Vardar rivers, as well as the northeastern Peloponnese, Boeotia, and central Euboea, are absent. These were lands assigned to Boniface of Montferrat, and thus evidently excluded from the general partition. This fact also helps to assign the terminus post quem for the treaty, namely the agreement of 16 May 1204 between Boniface and Baldwin of Flanders that established the Kingdom of Thessalonica.Vorlage:Sfn
As Zakythinos points out, the territorial division shown in the Partitio and in the 1198 chrysobull for Asia Minor is much more conservative, and reflects far closer the "traditional" thematic structure than in the European provinces.Vorlage:Sfn On the other hand, the two documents differ considerably in the extent of territory they mention: the 1198 chrysobull contains the central and northern portions of western Asia Minor, but also the southern shore with Attaleia, Cilicia, and even Antioch, whereas in the Partitio, includes the Black Sea shore from Paphlagonia up to Pavrae.Vorlage:Sfn
Effects
BearbeitenThe Partitio Romaniae initiated the period of the history of Greece known as Frankokratia or Latinokratia ("Frankish/Latin rule"), where Catholic West European nobles, mostly from France and Italy, established states on former Byzantine territory and ruled over the mostly Orthodox native Byzantine Greeks. The provisions of the Partitio Romaniae were not fully carried out; much of the Byzantine realm fell into the hands not of the crusaders who had sacked the capital but of the local Byzantine Greek nobles, who established the Byzantine successor states of the Despotate of Epirus, the Empire of Nicaea and the Empire of Trebizond, while the Crusaders also squabbled among themselves. The Latin Empire itself, consisting of the area surrounding Constantinople, Thrace, and the Sea of Marmara was also drawn into a disastrous conflict with the powerful Second Bulgarian Empire. Latin rule became most firmly established and lasted longest in southern Greece (the Principality of Achaea and the Duchy of Athens), as well as the Aegean islands, which came largely under the control of Venice.
Notes
BearbeitenEinzelnachweise
Bearbeiten- ↑ R.L. Wolff: Romania: The Latin Empire of Constantinople. In: Speculum. Band 23, Nr. 1, 1948, S. 1–34, doi:10.2307/2853672, JSTOR:2853672.
- ↑ Thomas Tafel: 1856, S. 452.
- ↑ Zakythinos: 1951, S. 179.
- ↑ G. Tafel und G. Thomas: Urkunden zur älteren Handels- und Staatsgeschichte der Republik Venedig, Wien 1856, S. 452–501 (Digitalisat)
- ↑ A. Carile: Partitio terrarum imperii Romanie. In: Studi Veneziani. Band 7, 1965, S. 125–305.
- ↑ Nicol 1988, S. 149
- ↑ Dionysios Zakythinos: 1951, S. 179–180.
- ↑ Thomas Tafel: 1856, S. 444–452.
- ↑ Zakythinos (1951), S. 180
- ↑ Zakythinos (1951), S. 181
- ↑ C.M. Brand: Partitio Romaniae. In: Alexander Kazhdan (Hrsg.): The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press, Oxford und New York 1991, ISBN 0-19-504652-8, S. 1591–1592.
- ↑ Nicol (1988), S. 149
- ↑ Der latienische Begriff pertinentia entspricht dem byzantinischen Steuerdistrikt der episkepsis und findet meist auf kaiserlichen, klösterlichen oder privaten Besitz Anwendung. Maksimović (1988), S. 35; Zakythinos (1941), S. 241–243
- ↑ Tafel (1856) S. 464
- ↑ Külzer (2008) S. 264–267
- ↑ Külzer (2008) S. 530–532
- ↑ Soustal (1991) 223–224
- ↑ Zakythinos (1948) S. 54
- ↑ Andreas Kiesewetter: Quarta Crociata. Venezia - Bisanzio - Impero latino. Atti delle giornate di studio. Venezia, 4-8 maggio 2004. Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, Venice 2006, ISBN 978-88-88143-74-3, Preludio alla Quarta Crociata? Megareites di Brindisi, Maio di Cefalonia e la signoria sulle isole ionie (1185-1250), S. 343 (italienisch).
- ↑ Vorlage:ODB
- ↑ Hélène Ahrweiler: Travaux et mémoires 1. Centre de recherche d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance, Paris 1965, L'Histoire et la Géographie de la région de Smyrne entre les deux occupations turques (1081–1317), S. 134–135 (französisch).
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