List of Byzantine treaties

This is a list of the treaties and agreements signed during the history of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire. The definition of a treaty is any agreement between the Byzantine Empire and any foreign power, including peace agreements, trade agreements, and understandings between the two powers. For external conflicts see Byzantine wars.

Constantinian dynasty (306–363)

Valentinian–Theodosian dynasty (364–457)

  • Peace of Acilisene (c.387) – Peace treaty between Sassanid Empire and Eastern Roman Empire, dividing Greater Armenia in half.

Leonid dynasty (457–518)

Justinian dynasty (518–602)

  • Eternal Peace (532), between the Byzantines and Sassanid Persia
  • Fifty-Year Peace Treaty (562) – between Byzantines and Sassanid Persia

Non-dynastic (602–610)

Heraclian dynasty (610–711)

Non-dynastic (711–717)

Isaurian dynasty (717–802)

Nikephoros' dynasty (802–813)

  • Pax Nicephori (803) peace treaty between Charlemagne and Nicephorus I

Non-dynastic (813–820)

Phrygian dynasty (820–867)

Macedonian dynasty (867–1056)

Non-dynastic (1056–1057)

Komnenid dynasty (1057–1059)

Doukid dynasty (1059–1081)

Komnenid dynasty (1081–1185)

Angelid dynasty (1185–1204)

Laskarid dynasty (Empire of Nicaea, 1204–1261)

Palaiologan dynasty (1261–1453)

References

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