Byzantine | Richard Pendavingh

Byzantine Archive

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Part 2: The fall of Trebizond

Ancient Rome, Byzantine, Constantinople, Janissaries, Ottoman, Trebizond

After the fall of Constantinople the two remaining Byzantine states- the Despotate of Morea and the Empire of Trebizond- came under renewed pressure.

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Ottoman troops broke through Constantinople's Theodosian wall and sacked the city on the 29th of May 1453. Illustration by Jose Daniel Cabrera Peña.

Part 1: The Fall of Constantinople

Byzantine, Constantinople, gunpowder, Janissary, Komnenos, Ottoman

In the mountains around Trabzon you can find fragments of an empire that traces its origins back to ancient Rome.
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