Trebizond: The Last Greek EmpireSociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1926 - 133 pages |
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Alexios Alexios II Amoiroutzes Andronikos apud Armenia Athens Athos Basil besieged Bessarion Black Sea Bonn brother Byzantine Byzantium Caffa Caloandro capital captured castle century Chaldia Chalkokondyles chronicler Clavijo Comneni Constantine Constantinople consul court daughter David Doge of Genoa Doranites emir Emperor of Trebizond Empire of Trebizond Empress envoy Eudokia Eugenios Fallmerayer father favour Gabrâs galleys Genoa Genoese George Georgian Grand-Duke GREEK EMPIRE Hassan Hellenism Herakleia Imperial family inscription Irene John John IV Jorga Kabasites Kenchrina Kerasunt Kritoboulos Lampros Laskaris Latin Lercari Limnia Manuel married Melik Metropolitan Michael Mohammed monastery of St Mongol monks Moslem Mount Athos Nikephoros Gregoras Niketas nobles Notes et Extraits Oinaion Original-Fragmente palace Panaretos Papadopulos-Kerameus Paris Patriarch peace Phrantzes princess reign rival Sathas Seljuk sent Sinope Soumelâ Sultan Theodore Theodore Laskaris throne Timour Trapezuntine treaty Trebi Triantaphyllides Turkish Turkomans Turks Tzanichites Venetian wife wrote zond εἰς ἐν καὶ τῆς τὸν τοῦ Τραπεζοῦντος Χρονική
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Page 65 - wore tall hats surmounted by golden cords, on the top of which were cranes' feathers; and the hats were bound with the skins of martens.
Page 72 - She wore in her ears broad and flat rings, set with several precious stones, especially rubies. She looked young and fair, and handsomer than when in church. In one word, I should not have had a fault to find with her, had she not been painted, and assuredly she had not any need of it.
Page 66 - the most beautiful part is a street near the sea, which is in one of these suburbs, where they sell all the things required in the city. On the shore there are two castles with strong walls and towers, one belonging to the Venetians and the other to the Genoese.
Page 109 - February 24, 1918, and, in spite of an agitation in Western Europe on behalf of Pontic Hellenism, it has remained in their hands. In January, 1923, the new Turkish governor expelled the remnants of the Greek population, and Trebizond has ceased to be the eastern march of Hellenism.
Page 114 - Empire frescoed banqueting-hall. Thence on the left the visitor was conducted to the library, containing memoirs on anthropology and political history, while on the right was the frescoed chapel adorned with costly offerings.
Page 116 - Pontos, when the ancient Metropolitan Church has been destroyed by the new Mohammed and its pastor is an exile at Athens, men may look back with regret to the Empire of Trebizond.
Page 116 - Byzantium or even of Nicaea, if men of character were rare among its twenty-one sovereigns, it kept alive the torch of Hellenism in that far-off region of the Euxine for over twcTand a.
Page 97 - Trebizond must have fallen in the late summer, for Mohammed did not leave Constantinople till after June 22, and a Venetian document, which announced its fall to the Republic's envoy in Hungary, bears the date of October 26, 1461, thus fixing the year beyond all dispute. The date of Amoiroutzes...
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Page 21 - Emperor and Autocrat of all the East, the Iberians, and the Transmarine Province' ('Ev Xpiortji T<J> 0e<3 Triords /3o<7iX«iis Kal O.VTOKP&.TUP Triads 'ApaToAijs, 'IfHjpiav Ktd Ileporeias).