Manuel II Palaiologos
1350 CE–1425 CE · Constantinople
Manuel II Palaiologos was Byzantine emperor from 1391 to 1425, ruling a small state largely confined to Constantinople and a few outposts as the Ottoman Turks pressed on all sides. A learned man and author of theological and literary works, he traveled through Italy, France, and England between 1399 and 1403 seeking military aid against the Ottomans, becoming the only Byzantine emperor to visit Western Europe. The Ottoman defeat by Timur at Ankara in 1402 brought his empire a period of relief and even minor recovery. He spent his later reign managing relations with the reviving Ottoman state, whose growing power foreshadowed the empire's fall a generation after his death.
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