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Social organizationThe political and military administration of the kingdom was assigned to Latin nobles, of Lombard descent mostly. The Greeks were excluded from the exercise of power and the Byzantine institutions that were in force in the region before 1204, were replaced by western ones. During the period that the Lombard lords ruled the kingdom (after 1207), influence from the north of Italy grew stronger, whereas the Lombard soldiers assumed to defend Thessalonika.
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