Efforts by Emperor David to recruit European powers for an anti-Ottoman crusade provoked war concerning the Ottomans and Trebizond in the summer of 1461. After a month-very long siege, David surrendered the city of Trebizond on fourteen August 1461. Trebizond’s Crimean principality, the Principality of Theodoro (element of the Perateia), lasted one more 14 yrs,…
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