A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . iscords of their adversaries. But when thesewere allayed by the elevation of the Mameluke Bibars to the sul-tanate, their troubles were renewed. Bibars destroyed Nazareth,demolished the fortress on Mount Tabor, Arsuf, and Jaffa, anddevastated the fertile district around Tyre. In the north. Anti-och fell into his hands. The concurrent collapse of the Latin em-pire of Constantinople was, moreover, disastrous for the Sj^rianChristians. The founders of this latter empii-e had not been ablecompletely to subjuga
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . iscords of their adversaries. But when thesewere allayed by the elevation of the Mameluke Bibars to the sul-tanate, their troubles were renewed. Bibars destroyed Nazareth,demolished the fortress on Mount Tabor, Arsuf, and Jaffa, anddevastated the fertile district around Tyre. In the north. Anti-och fell into his hands. The concurrent collapse of the Latin em-pire of Constantinople was, moreover, disastrous for the Sj^rianChristians. The founders of this latter empii-e had not been ablecompletely to subjugate all the provinces l)ehinging to the By-santines; even in Epirus the Comneni maintained the .sii])reiiiacy. FALL OF TUE LATIN EMPIRE OF CONHTANTINOVLE. Besides, two new states had arisen in the Asiatic provinces, namely,the kingdom, or empire, of Trebizond on the coasts of the Black Sea,under Alexius, a grandson of Andronicus, and the empire of Nice,also under a Comnenus, Theodore Lascaris, which was regarded asa continuation of that of Byzantium. On the Latin empire all sorts. Fig. 128. — Three soldiers suardiiis tlie Tomb of Christ. Painting in a prayer-bookon parchment of about li!(JU. Leipsic, University Library. of misfortunes at once broke in. Baldwin I. (Fig. 127) diedmiserably, in , as a captive of the wild Bulgarians, againstwhom he had taken the field. His abler brother, Henry (1205-1216), struggled in vain against the enemies rising up everywherearound him. The succeeding reigns brought no amelioration.
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