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It was the last outpost of Byzantine civilization to fall to the Turks, being forced to surrender in 1461 when besieged by Ottoman forces by land and sea. In 1204, Trebizond consisted of a small fortified enceinte on a steep hill, with market, harbor, suburbs, and separately fortified monasteries outside the walls.
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.
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 Komenos Byzantine emperors.
All of the reasons highlighted previously were reasons for why the Empire of Trebizond held out until 1461 - 8 years after the fall of the revived Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologoi. However, by this time, Trebizond had long been treated as an independent state - a mere vestige of Byzantine culture lost to time in the backwoods of Anatolia.
May 29, 2011 · Trebizond was the last outpost of Byzantine civilization; with its fall, that civilization came to an end. "It was the end of the free Greek world," wrote Steven Runciman , who then noted that those Greeks still not under Ottoman rule still lived "under lords of an alien race and an alien form of Christianity.
When the army of the Fourth Crusade overthrew (1204) the Byzantine Empire and established the Latin Empire of Constantinople, several Greek successor states sprang up. These were the empire of Nicaea, the despotate of Epirus, and the empire of Trebizond.
Sep 24, 2022 · Sep 24, 2022. -- 1. The Empire of Trebizond (Image by author) S urprisingly, nobody is talking about the continuation of the Byzantine successor states. The Empire of Trebizond was a breakaway empire of the Byzantine Empire, that existed from 1204 to 1461 AD.
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