Byzantine Emperor of Trebizond Sam Topalidis (2024) Pontic Historian and Ethnologist Introduction Alexios IV Grand Komnenos (reign 1417–1429) was the emperor of the small Byzantine empire of […]
Soumela Monastery of Trabzon, The Greek Orthodox Monastery of the Virgin Mary, better known as Sumela Monastery, is one of the Black Sea’s highlights.
Sam Topalidis (Pontic historian) 2018 Introduction Trabzon is a town with over 300,000 people in northeast Turkey on the Black Sea coast (Figure 1). It was settled […]
The Black Sea Region offers a wealth of summer encampments in the lush mountains which ring the coast and is a superb destination for those interested […]
