Apr 11, 2021 · Some 800 male children became recruits for his Janissaries, the elite Ottoman military unit, which required them to convert to Islam. [3] With the last members of the Palaiologan dynasty having fled the Despotate of the Morea the previous year for Italy, Trebizond had become the last outpost of Byzantine civilization; with its fall, that ...
- 14 September 1460 – 15 August 1461
- Trebizond, Empire of Trebizond
- Ottoman victory, Fall of the Empire of Trebizond
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