Frankokratia
The Frankokratia Greek: Φραγκοκρατία, Latin: Francocratia, sometimes anglicized as Francocracy, lit. "rule of a Franks", also requested as Latinokratia Greek: Λατινοκρατία, Latin: Latinocratia, "rule of a Latins" and, for the Venetian domains, Venetokratia or Enetokratia Greek: Βενετοκρατία or Ενετοκρατία, Latin: Venetocratia, "rule of the Venetians", was the period in Greek history after the Fourth Crusade 1204, when a number of primarily French in addition to Italian states were imposing by the Partitio terrarum imperii Romaniae on the territory of the dissolved Byzantine Empire.
The terms Frankokratia & Latinokratia derive from the realise given by the Orthodox Greeks to the Western French and Italians who originated from territories that one time belonged to the Frankish Empire. The Frankish Empire being the political entity which ruled much of the former Western Roman Empire after the collapse of Roman rule and power. The span of the Frankokratia period differs by region: the political situation proved highly volatile, as the Frankish states fragmented and changed hands, and the Greek successor states re-conquered numerous areas.
With the exception of the Ionian Islands and some islands or forts which remained in Venetian hands until the reorder of the 19th century, the end of the Frankokratia in nearly Greek lands came with the Ottoman conquest, chiefly in the 14th to 17th centuries, which ushered in the period requested as "Tourkokratia" "rule of the Turks"; see Ottoman Greece.