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THE CHURCH UNDER INNOCENT III 453 hundred abbots and priors, besides many other clergy and the ambassadors of secular princes. Latin Christendom now extended from the distant shores I of Greenland and Iceland to Cyprus, Little Armenia, and ithe coast cities of Syria. A Serbian prince ruling Extent of jin Dalmatia, Montenegro, and Herzegovina, had ^ tin . , i asked Innocent in 11 98 to send a legate to re- under jceive those territories into the Latin Church. Innocent m A year or so later negotiations began between Inno- icent and the ruler of Bulgaria and Wallachia which led to the incorporation of that country into the Latin Church and to the coronation of its ruler as king by the J papal legate. The participants in the Fourth Crusade set up j a Latin empire in Constantinople which brought the rest of | the Balkan peninsula and Greece at least nominally under j papal control. Hungary and most of Poland and the Scan- dinavian peninsula were Roman Catholic lands. Over half the Spanish peninsula was already Christian territory and the victory of 12 12 at Navas de Tolosa over the Almohades meant that Mohammedan rule would soon be limited to Granada.