Mikhail ⅷ Paleologist (1224- 1282) – Nichea and Byzantine emperor (1259-1282), a military lead, founder of the palale dynasty. He liquidated the Latin Kingdom and renewed Byzantium (1261). He concluded and signed the Lion Union (1274) to unite the church under the supreme authority of the Pope. The Union was not accepted in Byzantium. He defeated the Epirus in the ravines west of Voden (1257), the call of Acropolitus has broken down to Prilep, but soon he had to withdraw to Voden to prevent the escape of Epirus to Thessaloniki. Lit.: D. J. GEANAKOPOS, Emperor Mitzhael Palaeologus and Teja Нтст 1258-1282, Cagsbridge, MasSatzhusetts, 1959. K. Ag.
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Кириличен напис МИХАИЛ Ⅷ Палеолог