# Roman Successor State at Nicaea Consolidates (1205)

URL: https://roman-history.com/timeline/1205-roman-successor-state-at-nicaea-consolidates
Location: Nicaea
Categories: politics

Nicaea became the principal center that preserved Constantinopolitan imperial institutions in exile.

## Why it matters
Its rulers created the state that would retake Constantinople in 1261.

Ruler at the time: [Theodore I Laskaris](https://roman-history.com/rulers/theodore-i-laskaris)