Empire of Trebizond - Wikipedia With the fall of Trebizond, the last independent remnant of the Byzantine Empire, as well as the Roman Empire from which the Byzantine Empire sprang, was the Empire of Trebizond's offshoot, the Principality of Theodoro
Empire of Trebizond - World History Encyclopedia The Empire of Trebizond was an offshoot of the Byzantine Empire that existed from 1204 to 1461 CE, ruled by the Megas Komnenos Dynasty, descendants of the Komnenos Byzantine emperors
Trebizond - The Byzantine Legacy Trebizond (Tραπεζούς, modern Trabzon Turkey) was the most important city of the Pontos It flourished because of its fine harbor and location at the head of the best route from the sea to the interior and Persia
Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461) - About History The Trebizond empire is a medieval Byzantine-Orthodox state, formed in 1204 on the Anatolian coast of the Black Sea as a result of the collapse of the Byzantine Empire
Trebizond, empire of - Encyclopedia. com Trebizond (modern Trabzon), the capital, and Sinope (Sinop) were the chief cities The western part of the empire was the conquest of David Comnenus, who soon lost his dominions to Nicaea
Empire of Trebizond - New World Encyclopedia The Empire of Trebizond (Greek: Βασίλειον τής Τραπεζούντας) was a Byzantine Greek successor state of the Byzantine Empire founded in 1204 as a result of the capture of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade
Empire of Trebizond, the Greek State that Survived the Fall of . . . The Empire of Trebizond was the last Byzantine Greek state to fall under Ottoman rule, 24 emperors and 257 years after its founding The Ottomans would take another 18 years to definitively eliminate Greek resistance in Pontus
Trebizond: the Last Byzantine Empire - History Today Trebizond: the Last Byzantine Empire When the rapacious warriors of the Fourth Crusade seized Constantinople at the beginning of the thirteenth century, two Byzantine princes set up an empire-in-exile stretching from Georgia along the Black Sea coast This new empire outlived the parent city
Trabzon - Wikipedia Trebizond was an overwhelmingly Christian and Greek city at the time of its fall to the Ottomans in 1461 The Greek Christians slowly lost their majority through the end of that century