Word.ws English Dictionary

Duchy of Athens

Duchy of Athens proper noun: a duchy, encompassing the regions of Attica and Boeotia, which was established in Greece in 1205 after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade.

Proper noun

Duchy of Athens

  1. (historical) A duchy, encompassing the regions of Attica and Boeotia, which was established in Greece in 1205 after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade.
    • The Duchy of Athens was the most interesting and renowned of these Frankish kingdoms; and in one of his lectures PRESIDENT FELTON¹ points out the traces which this duchy has left here and there in modern literature.1883, Marcius Willson, Robert Pierpont Wilson, Mosaics of Grecian History, Harper & Brothers, page 483
    • Strengthened by this alliance, Nerio then decided to move decisively against the Duchy of Athens.1987, John Van Antwerp Fine Jr., “The Late Medieval Balkans”, in Paperback, University of Michigan Press, published 1994, page 404

Questions about Duchy of Athens

What does Duchy of Athens mean?
Duchy of Athens means a duchy, encompassing the regions of Attica and Boeotia, which was established in Greece in 1205 after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade.
What part of speech is Duchy of Athens?
Duchy of Athens is a proper noun.

Words near Duchy of Athens in the dictionary

  1. Duchovniks
  2. Duchovny
  3. Duchscherer
  4. Duchscherers
  5. duchy
  6. Duchy of Athens
  7. Duchy of Moscow
  8. Duchy of Naples
  9. Duchy of Normandy
  10. Duchy of Rome
  11. Duchy of Schleswig

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Duchy of Athens (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Duchy of Athens.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/duchy_of_athens. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.