Siege of Constantinople (1260)

Siege of Constantinople (1260)
Part of the Nicaean–Latin wars
Map showing Constantinople and its walls during the Byzantine era
Date 1260 Location Constantinople, Latin Empire (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey) Result Latin victory Nicaean army fails to capture Constantinople.
Belligerents
Empire of Nicaea	Latin Empire
Commanders and leaders
Michael VIII	Baldwin II
Strength
unknown	unknown
Casualties and losses
unknown	unknown

The siege of Constantinople in 1260 was the failed attempt by the Nicene Empire, the major remnant of the fractured Byzantine Empire, to retake Constantinople from the Latin Empire and re-establish the City as the political, cultural and spiritual capital of a revived Byzantine Empire.