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.

Valentinian–Theodosian dynasty (364–457)

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

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 (711–717)

Byzantine–Bulgarian Treaty of 716 – Officially ends the Battle of Anchialus and establishes the borders between Byzantium and the Bulgarian Empire.

Nikephoros' dynasty (802–813)

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

Non-dynastic (813–820)

Byzantine–Bulgarian Treaty of 815 with the Bulgarian Empire.

Macedonian dynasty (867–1056)

Komnenid dynasty (1081–1185)

Byzantine–Venetian Treaty of 1082
Treaty of Devol (1108) with Bohemond I of Antioch

Laskarid dynasty (Empire of Nicaea, 1204–1261)

Palaiologan dynasty (1261–1453)

Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1268
Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277
Treaty of Orvieto (1281)
Byzantine–Trapezuntine treaty of 1282
Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1285
Treaty of Chernomen (1327)
Treaty of Gallipoli (1403) – agreement that released the Byzantine Empire of vassalage to the Ottoman Empire and extensive territorial additions.

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