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Manuel I of Trebizond. Manuel I Megas Komnenos ( Greek: Μανουήλ Κομνηνός; [a] died March 1263) was Emperor of Trebizond from 1238 until his death. He was the son of Emperor Alexios I and his wife, Theodora. At the time Manuel reigned, the Empire of Trebizond comprised a band of territory stretching along the southern coast of the ...
The siege of Trebizond in 1222–1223 was an unsuccessful siege of Trebizond, the capital of the namesake empire, by the Sultanate of Rum under a certain Melik. According to the late 14th-century Synopsis of Saint Eugenios of John Lazaropoulos, the city was close to being captured but was saved by an unusually severe storm.
Michael granted Niketas the title of megas doux and was forced to sign the document which gave Niketas and his ministers almost all power in the Empire, promising to seek their counsel in all official actions. This constitutional experiment was short-lived, because the greatest opposition came from the people of Trebizond.
Basil Megas Komnenos ( Medieval Greek: Βασίλειος Μέγας Κομνηνός, romanized : Basileios Megas Komnēnos) (died 6 April 1340) was Emperor of Trebizond from August 1332 until his death in 1340. Although Basil's reign was a period of stability during the civil war that dominated the pocket empire during the second quarter of ...
List of Trapezuntine emperors. Alexios III Megas Komnenos ( r. 1349–1390), the longest-reigning Trapezuntine emperor, and his wife Theodora Kantakouzene. The Trapezuntine emperors were the rulers of the Empire of Trebizond, one of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire founded after the Fourth Crusade in 1204, until its fall to the ...
Definition. The Empire of Trebizond was an offshoot of the Byzantine Empire that existed from 1204 to 1461 CE, ruled by the Megas Komnenos Dynasty, descendants of the Komenos Byzantine emperors. The Empire of Trebizond has been far less researched than the Byzantine Empire, let alone the Roman Empire, yet it was the last real surviving ...
Siege of Trebizond (1282) / 40.99361°N 39.66750°E / 40.99361; 39.66750. King David Narin failed to take the city, but the Georgians succeeded in annexing the eastern part of the empire. [1] [2] The siege of Trebizond ( Georgian: ტრაპიზონის ალყა ,) in April 1282 was an unsuccessful siege of Trebizond, the ...
