Despotate of morea, autonomous byzantine principality located on the greek peloponnese (morea). It was established in the mid-14th century by the byzantine emperor john vi cantacuzenus (reigned Ò€¦ The morea displays many historical eccentricities;

The morea, also known as the principality of achaea, was an important locale for the production and proliferation of french language texts in the years after the fourth crusade, when frankish leaders Ò€¦ The fourteen essays in viewing the morea focus on the late medieval morea (peloponnese), beginning with the bold attempt of western knights to establish a kingdom on foreign soil.