In March 1204, shortly before the sack of Constantinople in April, the Crusaders made a preliminary arrangement on the partition of the Byzantine territories between themselves.{{sfn|Zakythinos|1951|pp=179–180}} This text, concluded between the principal leaders of the Crusade, the Doge of Venice Enrico Dandolo, Marquess Boniface of Montferrat, Count Baldwin of Flanders, and Count Louis I of Blois, has been preserved among the letters of Pope Innocent III.{{sfn|Tafel|Thomas|1856|pp=444–452}} According to its stipulations, the Venetians would retain their previous privileges granted by the Byzantine emperors, and a common committee, composed in equal numbers of Venetians and Crusaders, would elect an emperor for the Latin Empire to be established after the conquest of the city. The Latin Emperor would receive one quarter of all territories, as well as the palaces of Blachernae and Boukoleon in the city. The remaining three quarters of the Byzantine territories would be divided equally between Venice and the other Crusaders.{{sfn|Zakythinos|1951|p=180}} On 9 May, Baldwin of Flanders was elected Latin Emperor, in place of the previous leader of the Crusade, Boniface of Montferrat. According to the Crusader and chronicler Geoffrey of Villehardouin, by previous agreement, Boniface should receive the territories lying beyond the Bosporus and Marmara Sea, "towards Turkey", as well as "the isle of Greece". However, to placate Boniface, Baldwin agreed to assign to him the Kingdom of Thessalonica instead.{{sfn|Zakythinos|1951|p=181}}
The agreement, which was promulgated either in late September or early October 1204 (according to the opinions of W. Heyd, Dionysios Zakythinos, and A. Carile) or (according to Nikolaos Oikonomides) immediately after the sack in April–May 1204,{{sfn|Brand|1991|pp=1591–1592}} was drafted by a 24-man committee consisting of 12 Venetians and 12 representatives of the other Crusader leaders.{{sfn|Brand|1991|pp=1591–1592}} The Venetians played a major role in the proceedings, as they had first-hand knowledge of the area, and many of the final text's provisions can be traced to the imperial chrysobull granted to Venice in 1198 by Alexios III Angelos.{{sfn|Nicol|1992|p=149}} It gave the Latin Emperor direct control of one fourth of the Byzantine territory, to Venice three eighths – including three eighths of the city of Constantinople, with Hagia Sophia – and the remaining three eighths were apportioned among the other Crusader chiefs. Through this division, Venice became the chief power in Latin Romania, and the effective power behind the Latin Empire, a fact clearly illustrated by the lofty title its Doge acquired: {{lang|la|Dominator quartae et dimidiae partis totius Romaniae}} ("Lord of a quarter and a half quarter of all of Romania").
According to the treaty's provisions, the territories were divided in the portion of the "Lord Doge and Commune of Venice" (pars domini Ducis et communis Venetiae), the portion of the Latin Emperor (pars domini Imperatoris), and the remainder as the portion of the Crusaders, or "pilgrims" (pars Peregrinorum).
| Latin text | Translation | Portion | Region | Comments |
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| The equivalent Byzantine administrative terms would be polis ("city") or kastron ("fortress").{{sfn|Maksimović|1988|p=35}}}} Archadiopoli. Missini. Bulgarofigo. (Pertinentia{{efn|The Latin term pertinentia is an equivalent to the Byzantine fiscal district of episkepsis, usually pertaining to imperial, monastic, or private estates.{{sfn|Maksimović|1988|p=35}}{{sfn|Zakythinos|1941|pp=241–243}}}} Archadiopoli).{{sfn|Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=464}} | Külzer|2008|pp=264–267}} Mesene,{{sfn|Külzer|2008|pp=530–532}} Bulgarophygon,{{sfn|Soustal|1991|pp=223–224}} forming part of the episkepsis of Arcadiopolis | Venice | Eastern Thrace | episkepsis of Messene, Arcadiopolis, and Bulgarophygon.{{sfn>Zakythinos|1948|p=54}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|pp=464, 465 (note 5)}} | episkepsis of Poutza{{sfn>Soustal|1991|p=418}} and "Nicodimi" | Venice | Eastern Thrace | Carile|1965|pp=218, 248}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=465}} | Külzer|2008|p=408}} | Venice | Eastern Thrace |
| Pertinentia Chalkidos, cum civitate Rodosto et Panido, cum omnibus, que sub ipsis. | episkepsis of Chalcis{{sfn>Külzer|2008|p=307}} with the cities of Raidestos{{sfn|Külzer|2008|p=609}} and Panidos with all their dependencies | Venice | Eastern Thrace |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|pp=465–466}} | Soustal|1991|p=164}}{{sfn|Zakythinos|1952|p=164}} with its dependencies | Venice | Eastern Thrace |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=466}} | episkepsis of Ganos{{sfn>Külzer|2008|pp=370–373}} | Venice | Eastern Thrace |
| The term casale could be equated either with chorion ("village") or proasteion ("landed estate").{{sfn|Maksimović|1988|pp=35, 37–38}}}} Chortocop[l]i. Casalia Chotriki, Kerasea, Miriofitum.{{sfn|Tafel|Thomas|1856|pp=466, 467 (notes 4–6)}} | Külzer|2008|p=450}} and Myriophyton{{sfn|Külzer|2008|p=540}} | Venice | Eastern Thrace | Külzer|2008|p=316}}{{sfn|Zakythinos|1952|p=169}} Chotriki (Χοτρικί) otherwise unattested, possibly identical with Chora.{{sfn|Külzer|2008|pp=314–315, 316}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=467}} | episkepsis of Peristasis{{sfn>Külzer|2008|pp=578–579}} | Venice | Eastern Thrace |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=467}} | the episkepsis of Branchialion | Venice | Eastern Thrace | 1200}}, and in later Byzantine sources.{{sfn|Külzer|2008|pp=298–299, 379}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=467}} | Külzer|2008|pp=401–411}} and Sagoudaous | Venice | Thracian Chersonese | Külzer|2008|p=613}} The location of the settlement (emporion) of Sagoudaous (Σαγουδάους) or Sagoude (Σαγούδη) is attested as a port and warehouse in 1152. Its location is not clear, but must have lain in the northern part of the Gallipoli Peninsula, or near Ainos.{{sfn|Külzer|2008|p=623}}{{sfn|Zakythinos|1952|pp=163–164}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|pp=467–468}} | episkepsis of Kallipolis{{sfn>Külzer|2008|p=426}} | Venice | Thracian Chersonese |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=468}} | Lazou and Laktou | Venice | Eastern Thrace | Külzer|2008|pp=489, 490}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=468}} | the episkepsis of Mountimanoi and the Sigos River with their dependencies | Venice | Thracian Chersonese | Külzer|2008|p=539}} The Sigos River is likely to be identified with the modern Kavakaltı Dere or, less likely, the Çeşme Dere, in the southern Gallipoli Peninsula.{{sfn|Külzer|2008|p=650}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=468}} | the province of Lacedaemonia and the minor and major episkepseis therein, and the town of Kalavryta | Venice | Peloponnese | Zakythinos|1951|pp=186–188}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=468}} | the town of Ostrovos | Venice | Western Macedonia | Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=468 (note 10)}}{{sfn|Zakythinos|1951|p=206 (note 1)}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=469}} | the towns of Oreos and Karystos | Venice | Euboea | Zakythinos|1951|pp=190–191}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=469}} | the island of Andros | Venice | Cyclades |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=469}} | the islands of Aegina and Salamis | Venice | Saronic Gulf | Zakythinos|1951|pp=189–190}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=469}} | the islands of Zakynthos and Cephalonia | Venice | Ionian Islands | Matthew Orsini|fr|Matteo Orsini (comte palatin de Céphalonie)}}.{{sfn|Nicol|1992|p=156}}{{sfn|Zakythinos|1951|p=188}} However, Orsini's rule is not based on documentary evidence, but on Karl Hopf's conjectures, and A. Kiesewetter proposes that Maio di Monopoli (alias Matthew Orsini) may have taken control of the islands in 1206 from the Byzantines, who had recovered them since Margaritus's demise in 1294.[1] |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=469}} | the province of Koloneia, Chlerenon, and Kanina | Venice | Epirus | Capo Colonne), "Cycladibus" a reference to the Cyclades, and "Nisia" identified as Naxos island.{{sfn>Tafel|Thomas|1856|pp=469–470 (notes 8–10)}} This was rejected by Th. Menke and Jean Longnon, who emended the text to read "Provintia Colonie cum Chilari, Canisia.", i.e. Koloneia in Epirus, Kjari, and Konitsa, while Dionysios Zakythinos proposed identifying "Chilari" with Chlerenon, and "Canisia" with Kanina.{{sfn|Zakythinos|1951|pp=196–197}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=469}} | the episkepsis of "Lopadi" | Venice | Aegean Islands or Northern Asia Minor (?) | Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=470 (note 11)}} but according to Zakythinos it is equally likely to refer to Lopadion in Mysia, which is attested as an episkepsis in the 1198 chrysobull, since portions of the text have evidently been moved around so that they no longer correspond to their original arrangement by geographic proximity.{{sfn|Zakythinos|1951|p=197}} Carile finds the identification with Lopadion less likely, however.{{sfn|Carile|1965|pp=258–259}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|pp=469–470}} | horion{{efn>A type of subdivision of a theme that appears in the late 12th century exclusively in southern Greece.{{sfn|Koder|Hild|1976|p=67}}{{sfn|Zakythinos|1941|p=248}}}} of Patras and Methone with its dependencies, namely the estates of the Branas and Kantakouzenos families, the estates of kyra Irene, daughter of Emperor kyr Alexios III, and the estates of "Molineti", of "Pantokrator" and other monasteries | Venice | Peloponnese | horion of Patras and Methone probably occupied the entire western half of the Peloponnese.{{sfn>Zakythinos|1941|pp=248–249}} The name "Molineti" is evidently associated with windmills; two medieval locations correspond to this, both of them in modern Pylia.{{sfn|Zakythinos|1951|pp=185–186}} The location or identity of "Pantokrator" are unknown.{{sfn|Zakythinos|1951|p=186}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|pp=470–472}} | episkepseis of Arta and Achelous, of Anatoliko, Lesiana, "and of other archons and monasteries"{{sfn>Zakythinos|1951|p=194}} | Venice | Epirus | sebastokratores and Caesars, the daughters of the Emperor and the Augusta (Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera, wife of Alexios III).{{sfn>Zakythinos|1951|p=194}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=472}} | Zakythinos|1951|pp=198–199}} and Arbanon,{{sfn|Zakythinos|1951|pp=199–200}} with the chartoularata{{efn|A chartoularaton was a special type of fiscal and administrative district, placed under a chartoularios, apparently corresponding with areas of Slavic settlement.{{sfn|Koder|Hild|1976|p=67}}}} of Glavinitsa{{sfn|Zakythinos|1951|pp=200–201}} and Vagenetia{{sfn|Zakythinos|1951|pp=201–205}} | Venice | Epirus |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|pp=472–473}} | the provinces of Ioannina and Dryinopolis | Venice | Epirus |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=473}} | the province of Ohrid | Venice | Western Macedonia |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=473}} | the islands of Lefkada and Corfu | Venice | Ionian Islands |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|pp=473–474}} | from the Golden Gate and Blachernae and the western shore of the Bosporus, up to Mideia and Agathopolis on the Black Sea coast. Likewise from Bizye to Tzurulon and Theodoropolis on the Sea of Marmara | Emperor | Eastern Thrace | Stenon) of the Bosporus.{{sfn>Carile|1965|p=231}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=475}} | the province of Optimatoi | Emperor | Northern Asia Minor | The theme of the Optimatoi encompassed the parts of Asia Minor closest to Constantinople, with Nicomedia as its capital. Its mention apart from Nicomedia in 1204 may be the result of a confusion by the Latin writers, but both the rest of the Partitio and the 1198 chrysobull indicate a breaking up of the province sometime in the 12th century into smaller districts. In 1198, a separate "province of Mesothynia" is mentioned along with the "province of Nicomedia", which is absent in 1204.{{sfn|Zakythinos|1949|pp=3–4}}{{sfn|Zakythinos|1955|pp=130–132}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=475}} | the province of Nicomedia | Emperor | Northern Asia Minor |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|pp=475–476}} | the province of Tarsia, Plousias, and Metabole, along with Servochoria and all their dependencies | Emperor | Northern Asia Minor | Zakythinos|1955|pp=132–134}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=476}} | the province of Paphlagonia and the Bucellarians | Emperor | Northern Asia Minor | 768}}, and Paphlagonia was created as a distinct theme from it sometime in the early 9th century. It is likely that the themes of the Bucellarians and Paphlagonia had been administratively unified—unclear when or for how long—for defensive purposes, a recurrent practice in Byzantine history.{{sfn|Zakythinos|1955|pp=134–137}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=476}} | Oenoe and Sinope and Pavrae | Emperor | Northern Asia Minor | Zakythinos|1955|pp=137–139}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=476}} | the island of Lesbos | Emperor | Aegean Islands |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|pp=476–477}} | the islands of Lemnos and Skyros, and the islands this side of Abydos (i.e., in the Sea of Marmara), namely Proconnesus and the others, with Strobilos | Emperor | Aegean Islands and Sea of Marmara |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|pp=477–478}} | the islands of Samos and Tinos with Samothrace | Emperor | Aegean Islands |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=478}} | the province of Pylae, Pythia, and Kerama | Emperor | Asia Minor | episkepsis of Pylae and Pythia is mentioned, formerly part of the theme of the Optimatoi. The identity and location of Kerama is unknown, unless it is a misspelling for Germia, attested as a toponym in the area of Mysia.{{sfn>Zakythinos|1949|pp=3–4}}{{sfn|Zakythinos|1955|pp=139–140}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=478}} | the province of Malagina | Emperor | Northern Asia Minor | aplekton) for imperial expeditions in Asia Minor, and the site of major imperial horse farms. It was raised to a distinct administrative unit under the Komnenian emperors, due to its importance and exposure to Turkish raids.{{sfn>Zakythinos|1955|pp=140–141}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=478}} | the province of Achyraous | Emperor | Western Asia Minor | Partitio, and probably encompassed the northern part of the Thracesian Theme.{{sfn>Zakythinos|1949|pp=6–8}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|pp=478–479}} | the province of Adramyttium, Chliara, and Pergamon | Emperor | Western Asia Minor | According to Niketas Choniates, the theme of Neokastra originally encompassed the cities of Adramyttium, Chliara, and Pergamon, after they were refortified by Manuel I Komnenos. However, these cities are mentioned separately from the province both in the 1198 chrysobull and in the Partitio.[2] Helene Ahrweiler interpreted the evidence to suggest that Neokastra did indeed originally encompass the three cities, but that in 1198 Adramyttion may have formed a separate district, and that the separation between the cities and the province evidenced in the Partitio was the result of a copyist's error.[3] |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=479}} | the province of Neokastra | Emperor | Western Asia Minor |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=479}} | the province of Mylasa and Melanoudion | Emperor | Western Asia Minor |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=479}} | the province of Laodicea and the Maeander, with the district of Sampson and Samakion, with the estates of the Kontostephanos and the Kamytzes families and other places, as well as Chios | Emperor | Western Asia Minor and Aegean Islands | Carile|1965|p=218}} emend "Samakii" to "ta Malachii", identifying it with the Byzantine village of Malachiou (possibly modern Atburgazı) near Mycale, but as Peter Thonemann points out, the locality of Samakion is mentioned in the Life of St. Lazaros of Galesion.{{sfn|Thonemann|2011|p=275 note 95}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=480}} | the province of Little and Great Brysis | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=480}} | episkepsis of Gehenna{{sfn>Soustal|1991|p=265}} | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=480}} | Soustal|1991|p=560}}{{sfn|Zakythinos|1952|p=168}} with all its dependencies | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=480}} | episkepsis of Koule{{sfn>Soustal|1991|p=328}} | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | Zakythinos|1952|pp=168–169}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=481}} | Soustal|1991|p=257}}{{sfn|Zakythinos|1952|pp=167–168}} with all its dependencies | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=481}} | Soustal|1991|p=241}}{{sfn|Zakythinos|1952|p=164}} with all its dependencies | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=481}} | episkepsis of Kypsela{{sfn>Soustal|1991|pp=330–331}}{{sfn|Zakythinos|1952|p=166}} | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=481}} | episkepsis of Garella{{sfn>Külzer|2008|p=577}}{{sfn|Zakythinos|1952|p=167}} | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=481}} | episkepsis of Kedouktos{{sfn>Külzer|2008|p=446}} | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=482 (note 5)}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=481}} | episkepsis of Bera{{sfn>Soustal|1991|pp=200–201}} | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | sebastokrator Isaac Komnenos; in the 1150s it was still described as void of people or dwellings.{{sfn>Zakythinos|1952|pp=162–163}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=482}} | episkepsis of Makri{{sfn>Soustal|1991|p=342}} and Trajanopolis,{{sfn|Soustal|1991|p=483}} with the settlement of Brachon | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | Zakythinos|1952|pp=161–162}} Brachon is otherwise unknown; as a misreading of "Blachon", it may refer to the Monastery of the Saviour "of Blachon" near Ainos).{{sfn|Zakythinos|1952|p=162}}{{sfn|Soustal|1991|p=217}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=482}} | the episkepsis of "Scifis" and "Pagadi" with its dependencies | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | Külzer|2008|p=555}} while others suggest locating both on the eastern bank of the lower Maritsa river near Ainos.{{sfn|Soustal|1991|pp=384, 437}} Zakythinos proposed an identification of Scifis with the "village of Sophous" attested in the typikon of the Theotokos Kosmosoteira Monastery.{{sfn|Zakythinos|1952|p=163}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=483}} | episkepsis of Madytos{{sfn>Külzer|2008|p=501}} with its dependencies | Crusaders | Thracian Chersonese |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=483}} | Külzer|2008|pp=247–248}} Tinsakkos, Plagia,{{sfn|Külzer|2008|pp=595–596}} Potamia, and Aatios or Aacros | Crusaders | Thracian Chersonese | Külzer|2008|pp=459–460}} The exact identity or locations of Tinsakkos,{{sfn|Külzer|2008|p=677}} Potamia,{{sfn|Külzer|2008|p=600}} and Aacros/Aatios{{sfn|Külzer|2008|p=235}} are unknown, but lay on the Chersonese, just as the remaining locations. |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=484}} | the episkepsis of "P[l]ithoto" | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | Külzer|2008|pp=598, 599}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=484}} | the episkepsis of Galataria | Crusaders | Thracian Chersonese? | Külzer|2008|p=369}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=484}} | the town of Molinoto/Moliboton | Crusaders | Thracian Chersonese? | Külzer|2008|pp=536–537}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=484}} | the episkepsis of Hyelokastellion | Crusaders | Thracian Chersonese? | Külzer|2008|p=414}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=484}} | the episkepsis of "Sirolefki" | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=484 (note 5)}} but this does not fit the geographical context, which suggests proximity to Ainos.{{sfn|Külzer|2008|p=652}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=484}} | katepanikion of Ainos,{{sfn>Soustal|1991|p=170}} along with its warehouses | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | horrea), managed by the fisc.{{sfn>Zakythinos|1952|pp=164–166}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=484}} | katepanikion of Rusion,{{sfn>Külzer|2008|p=621}}{{sfn|Zakythinos|1952|pp=166–167}} with its dependencies | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=484}} | the episkepsis of Hagios Bibarios | Crusaders | Eastern Thrace | agrion bibarion, "wild fish-lake", indicating a location at or near the modern Lake Gala National Park.{{sfn>Zakythinos|1952|pp=166–167}}{{sfn|Külzer|2008|p=287}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=485}} | the province of the Vardar River | Crusaders | Western Macedonia | Zakythinos|1951|pp=206–208}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=485}} | the province of Veroia with the chartoularata of Dobrochoubista and Sthlanitsa | Crusaders | Western Macedonia | Tafel|Thomas|1856|pp=485–486 (note 5)}} and were followed by some other scholars, but the district is well attested elsewhere, including in the 1198 chrysobull.{{Sfn|Zakythinos|1951|pp=208–209}} Sthlanitsa is likewise attested by Anna Komnene and Theophylact of Ohrid.{{Sfn|Zakythinos|1951|p=209}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=485}} | the episkepsis allotted to the upkeep of the old-age care homes | Crusaders | Western Macedonia |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=486}} | the episkepsis of Platamon | Crusaders | Western Macedonia/Thessaly |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=486}} | the episkepsis of Moliskos and Moglena | Crusaders | Western Macedonia |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=486}} | the province of Prilapos and Pelagonia with Stanos | Crusaders | Western Macedonia | Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=486 (note 3)}}{{Sfn|Zakythinos|1951|p=209}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=486}} | the province of Prespes and the Cyclades | Crusaders | Western Macedonia and Aegean Islands | Zakythinos|1941|pp=254–256}} Its placement in the text is unusual, lying between areas of continental Greece; perhaps the result of a scribal error or, according to Jean Longnon, a result of a trade, whereby Ostrovos, originally claimed by the Crusaders, and the Cyclades, claimed by Venice, were exchanged (apart from Andros and Tinos), thus explaining the unexpected placement of both entries in the text of the treaty.{{Sfn|Zakythinos|1951|p=189}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=486}} | the horion of Larissa | Crusaders | Thessaly |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|pp=486–487}} | Zakythinos|1951|p=191}} | Crusaders | Thessaly |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=487}} | the province of Servia | Crusaders | Western Macedonia |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=487}} | the province of Kastoria and the province of Deabolis | Crusaders | Western Macedonia |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=487}} | episkepsis of the Empress, namely Vesaina,{{sfn>Koder|Hild|1976|p=134}} Pharsala,{{sfn|Koder|Hild|1976|pp=238–239}} Domokos,{{sfn|Koder|Hild|1976|p=148}} Grebenika or Rebenika, the two Halmyroi,{{sfn|Koder|Hild|1976|p=170}} with Demetrias{{sfn|Koder|Hild|1976|p=145}} | Crusaders | Thessaly | Koder|Hild|1976|p=67 (note 194)}} Grebenika or Rebenika is probably a location at or near the river Rebenikos, originating in the Cynoscephalae Hills in northern Thessaly.{{sfn|Koder|Hild|1976|p=251}}) |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|pp=487–488}} | episkepsis of Neopatras{{sfn>Koder|Hild|1976|p=223}} | Crusaders | Thessaly | Zakythinos|1951|p=192}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=488}} | the province of Velechativa | Crusaders | Thessaly | Zakythinos|1941|pp=273–274}}{{sfn|Koder|Hild|1976|p=133}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=488}} | the episkepsis of Petrai, namely Dipotamon and Atalanti? | Crusaders | Thessaly | Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=488 (notes 3 & 4)}} Zakythinos rejected this reading in favour of the videlicet ("namely") of the Ambrosianus I manuscript.{{sfn|Zakythinos|1951|p=193}}{{sfn|Carile|1965|p=286}} The location of Petrai (plural) is unknown.{{sfn|Zakythinos|1951|p=193}} "Dipotamon" (Διπόταμον, "Two Rivers") may be located between the rivers Pineios and Rabenikos in northern Thessaly, and perhaps to be identified with the kleisoura (defile) of Libotanion, known from the time of Alexios I Komnenos.{{sfn|Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=488 (note5)}}{{sfn|Koder|Hild|1976|p=285}} Tafel and Thomas identify Calacon as the genitive of Galaza, a suffragan of the Metropolis of Neopatras,{{sfn|Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=489 (note 6)}} while Zakythinos suggests either the reading Kalamos, or, from the variant "Talantum" in the Codex Sancti Marci, Atalanti.{{sfn|Zakythinos|1951|p=193}}{{sfn|Koder|Hild|1976|p=126}} |
| Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=488}} | Koder|Hild|1976|pp=249–250}} and the horion of Athens, with the episkepsis of Megara{{sfn|Koder|Hild|1976|p=215}} | Crusaders | Thessaly and Attica | Zakythinos|1951|p=193}} Tafel and Thomas suggest the town and bishopric of Stagoi in Thessaly,{{sfn|Tafel|Thomas|1856|p=489 (note 7)}} while Carile suggested the bishopric of Patzouna, known only as a suffragan of the Metropolis of Larissa.{{sfn|Koder|Hild|1976|p=232}} |
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Based on the forms of the names, the source material for the compilation of the treaty was in Greek, while the prevalence of fiscal terms like episkepsis points to the use of the cadastral and tax registers of the central Byzantine administration.{{sfn|Zakythinos|1951|p=182}}{{sfn|Zakythinos|1952|p=161}}
As the division was based on now lost documents and tax registers from the Byzantine imperial chancery, along with Alexios III's 1198 chrysobull, the Partitio Romaniae is a crucial document for the administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire and the estates of the various Byzantine magnate families {{circa|1203}}, as well as the areas still controlled by the Byzantine central government at the time.{{sfn|Zakythinos|1951|p=179}}
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