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Emperor John III Reestablishes the Byzantine Imperial Library (1222)


A gold hyperpyron, depicting, on the obverse, a regal Christ, and on the reverse, Emperor John III, crowned by the Virgin Mary. (View Larger)

The Byzantine capital having moved to Nicaea, Emperor John III Doukas Vatatzes or Ducas Vatatzes reestablished the Byzantine Imperial Library about this time.

From Nicaea the Byzantines began a campaign to recapture Constantinople from the Normans.