The Ruins of Rome: A Byzantine Collpase Timeline

[Basileus_Komnenos]

Is the empire permanently dead here to be split between various Greek speaking successor states? Or is it an extended period of crisis like the 20 years anarchy or Crisis of the Third Century (50 years of anarchy) where a successor state slowly emerges and rebuilds the Empire?

 

[Eparkhos]

Is the empire permanently dead here to be split between various Greek speaking successor states? Or is it an extended period of crisis like the 20 years anarchy or Crisis of the Third Century (50 years of anarchy) where a successor state slowly emerges and rebuilds the Empire?

At this point, the central government, which was almost universally hated, is dead and buried.

But in regards to the Nikaian Empire....