Empire of Trebizond

Trabzon is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. Historically known as Trebizond, the city was founded in 756 BC as Trapezous by Greek colonists from Miletus. It was added into the Achaemenid Empire by Cyrus the Great and was later part of the independent Kingdom of Pontus that challenged Rome until 68 BC. Thenceforth part of the Roman and later Byzantine Empire, the city was the capital of the Empire of Trebizond, one of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire after the Fourth Crusade in 1204. In 1461 it came under Ottoman rule.

Byzantine Greek state on Black Sea coast

Bessarion (; 2 January 1403 – 18 November 1472) was a Byzantine Greek Renaissance humanist, theologian, Catholic cardinal and one of the famed Greek scholars who contributed to the revival of letters in the 15th century. He was educated by Gemistus Pletho in Neoplatonic philosophy and later served as the titular Latin Patriarch of Constantinople. He eventually was named a cardinal and was twice considered for the papacy.

Greek Orthodox monastery and Tentative UNESCO World Heritage Site in Turkey

Byzantine monument in Trabzon, Turkey

mosque in Trabzon, northeastern Turkey

mosque in Trabzon, northeastern Turkey

Zilkale is a medieval castle located in the Fırtına Valley (literally "Storm Valley") within the Pontic Mountains, and is one of the most important historical structures in the Çamlıhemşin district of Rize Province, within the Black Sea Region of Turkey.

thumb|The upper territories make up Perateia Perateia (, "place beyond [the sea]", cf. peraia) was the overseas territory of the Empire of Trebizond, comprising the Crimean cities of Cherson, Kerch and their hinterlands. The territory was probably administered during Byzantine rule from Trebizond before the Comneni established a separate empire a few weeks before the Crusader sack of Constantinople in 1204.

monastery in Maçka, Trabzon, Turkey

Series of walls built around the city of Trabzon, Turkey

monastery in Maçka, Trabzon, Turkey

church building in Trabzon, Turkey

thumb|300px|What remains today of the fortress. thumb|300px|Construction of the warehouse of the Genoese in Trebizond (Leonkastron). Fantastical fresco by Luca Cambiasi, painted around 1571. Palazzo Lercari-Parodi in Genoa.

near Trabzon

11th century Byzantine illuminated manuscript

Genealogy of Iranian dynasty

castle in Rize Province, Turkey