The longest-surviving Byzantine successor state, established on the Black Sea coast of Anatolia by members of the Komnenian dynasty in 1204, which outlasted the Latin Empire and the restored Byzantine Empire itself, finally falling to the Ottomans in 1461.
Conquered by Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II in 1461 after a month-long siege, when Emperor David surrendered on 15 August 1461, ending the last surviving Byzantine successor state.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Empire of Trebizond — the shape you scrub through changes in 1204 · 1290.
An accessible, in-print history of Byzantium that situates Trebizond and the Byzantine successor states after 1204.
Provides wider Byzantine context for Trebizond's role as a successor state and its Pontic trade networks.
The full sweep of the Byzantine world this successor state belonged to.