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The Empire of Trebizond was founded shortly before the capture of Constantinople in 1204. Governed by the Grand Komnenos dynasty, it survived…

Between 1914 and 1923 the Orthodox Greeks of the Black Sea coast faced labour battalions, deportations and violence. The 1923 exchange ended…