<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishMiongoni mwa mabaki ya Milki ya Byzantium, Nicaea sasa Iznik ilibaki, na ilishinda Constantinople mnamo 1261, lakini mji huo ulikuwa umevunjika na makaburi yake makubwa yalikuwa yameondolewa dhahabu, fedha, na kazi za thamani za sanaa.  <response>: A remnant of the Byzantine Empire survived in Nicaea now Iznik, and recaptured Constantinople in 1261, but the city had been shattered and its great monuments were strip?ΰed of gold, silver, and precious works of art. 