The Empire of Trebizond was a Greek Byzantine successor state on the southeastern coast of the Black Sea, in what is now northeastern Turkey. It was founded by Alexios and David Komnenos, grandsons of the Byzantine emperor Andronikos I, shortly before the Fourth Crusade captured Constantinople in 1204, and they were helped by their relative Queen Tamar of Georgia. Isolated in the Pontic mountains, it controlled the main trade routes from the Black Sea toward Persia and the Caucasus, which brought great wealth. Its rulers kept the title of emperor and often married into neighbouring Turkish and Georgian dynasties. It outlasted Constantinople by some years, but fell to the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II, ending the last remnant of the Byzantine world.
Before and after
- from 1202 to 1204Fourth Crusade
- 1202Fibonacci introduces Hindu-Arabic numerals to Europe
- from 10 November 1202 to 24 November 1202Siege of Zara
- from 1204 to 1261Latin Empire
- from 1204 to 1461Empire of Trebizond
- from 1204 to 1261Empire of Nicaea
- 1205Construction of Ayr
- from 1206 to 1368Mongol Empire
- from 1206 to 1337Mongol invasions and conquests
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The era
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