How I Broke With My Gf On Facebook After the fall of Durres Norman armies rushed eastward and briefly occupied territories of Debar , Polog of Devollit . But in spring 1082 Robert Guiskardi was forced to return to Italy, where the revolt erupted Norman princes , driven by Alexis I Comnenus . Guiskardit son , Boemundi could not keep to established positions . Under the blows of the Byzantine army and aboriginal winding , the Normans began to withdraw . The Byzantines in 1084 , aided by locals picked Durres . Guiskardi same year , Robert died in his dominions in Italy and the last troops were withdrawn from Albania Norman.
At the end of the reign of Emperor Alexius I Komnen on 1118, the Albanian coast was also hit twice more by the army from the west . 1096 on the ports of Durres, Vlora armed Butrint landed the First Crusade , led by various kings and princes of Europe. Among them, Robert of Flanders and self Boemundi , Norman ruler of southern Italy. Another grouping Crusaders under the command of Raymond of Toulouse, came to earth through the Durres Dioklesë Dalmatia. In Diokle , the Crusaders were expecting " amicably " by Prince Bodin , who was already in open war with the Byzantine power . Check fighters in the western areas, which had a few years ago was the battle between the Normans and Byzantines, embarrassed Alex Comnenus .
He ordered his commanders Durres, Vlora and other regions to monitor the movements of the Crusaders and prevent any attempt to attack their Byzantine territory looted. However, Alex Comnenus avoid direct confrontation with them and everything to accelerate the elimination of cross- east. Ana Komnena and Western historians , who accompanied the First Crusade , the Crusaders show tired and exhausted sailing in the Adriatic Sea, found in rich markets and fairs of Durres, Glavinicës Adrianople ( Gjirokastra ) rest and supplies needed to continued their march to the holy places .
However contradictions between the emperor and the princes of the Byzantine crusades , especially since they created their principalities to the east, until hardened arrived and ended in clashes between Christian armies . Particularly marked clashes with Alex Comnenus his old enemy , Boemundin , who had established a principality in Syria based in Antioch Norman. Unable to cope with the Byzantine emperor in the Far East on Boemundi principality in 1107 he returned to Italy and began preparations for a new invasion of Byzantine territory .
Large fleet this year Normans landed in areas of Vlora , where Boemundit armies sent by land Durres . City beat was to stand repeated attempts Normans, who used all the tools and techniques of the occupation time . Without laying siege to the city, Boemundi continued his march eastwards. The Emperor Alexius tried to stop the progression of the hosts Norman blocking passages that lead to Ohrid and Debar . Arber region , refuge for the strategic position of its fortified systems became the main theater of combat operations .
Alex managing their emperor and praised the local commanders of the foreground, which distinguish between Kabashi Alexander ( Kabasilla ) of Eustath Kamizi . Itself , with many forces were placed deep in the Ohrid region , Devol Cologne , where his support people engaged in the fight against the Normans in Arber, Glavinić in Vlora . After several months of exhausting struggle , Norman army , stranded on the western plains , was forced to give up and return to Italy . Boemundi signed in Byzantine Emperor camp in Cologne humiliating agreement , under which he renounces any attack against the Byzantine territory of its shareholdings in Italy and Syria ( Antioch ) , and he himself recognized as a vassal Alexander the Komnen .
Under the reign of Alex boys Johani I II (1118-1143) and Manuel I Komnen (1143-1180) , Normans and Byzantines each made an attempt to overcome the Adriatic. Ruggeri II in 1149 on the King of Sicily conquered Corfu and from there , after Epirus landed on the mainland , proceeded in the direction of Thebes and Corinth. But the Normans were forced to withdraw quickly from these cities , the center of the silk industry and led to Palermo, the capital of their kingdom, the production technology of silk. Emperor Manuel I Komeni was the first ruler who imitated Byzantine Justinian try invasion of Italy. 1155 on a Byzantine fleet launched by the Albanian ports took the city of Ancona . In a short time the Byzantines captured the coastal Ancona Taranto. But the emperor was immediately faced a hostile coalition , led by the Norman King I. Even Guljelmi Venice, former ally of Byzantium, allied against him. Too early Byzantine troops fled Italian territories occupied by them