Thomas and Demetrios Palaiologos divided the rule of a despotate named for this region since Constantine XI needed Demetrios out of Constantinople. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this region controlled by the southernmost vassal state of the Latin Empire. Venice seized Dalmatia and this region from the Ottomans after the Great Turkish War.
ANSWER: Morea [or Achaea or Achaia; accept Peloponnese or Peloponnesus or Peloponnesian Peninsula; accept Despotate of the Morea or Despotate of Mystras; accept Principality of Morea or Principality of Achaea; accept Kingdom of the Morea or Regno di Morea; accept Morean War or Guerra di Morea; prompt on Messenia, Laconia, Arcadia, Argolis, Argolida, Elis, Ilia, or Corinthia by asking “it was ruled as part of what region?”]
[10e] Venice instigated the Morean War after losing this nearby island. The Ottoman siege of this island lasted over two decades and dissolved the Kingdom of Candia, which was based in modern-day Heraklion.
ANSWER: Crete [or Kríti; accept Cretan War or Kritikós Pólemos or Girit’in Fethi]
[10h] After the Cretan War, settlers of this Greek subgroup emigrated to the Corsican town of Cargèse (“car-zhezz”). A later pirate of this ethnicity named Lambros Katsonis joined Alexei Orlov’s Russian Navy, which invaded their homeland in 1770.
ANSWER: Maniots [or Maniátes or Mainotes; prompt on Mani Peninsula or Mánē or Maïna]
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