Empire of Trebizond
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The Empire of Trebizond, or Trapezuntine Empire, was a successor state of the Byzantine Empire that existed during the 13th through to the 15th century. The empire consisted of the Pontus, or far northeastern corner of Anatolia, and portions of southern Crimea.
The Hagia Sophia church of Trebizond, which was converted from a museum to mosque in 2013.
Copy of a destroyed fresco depicting Alexios III, his mother Eirene and his wife Theodora, Panagia Theoskepastos Monastery
Alexios III, from the chrysobull he granted to the Dionysiou monastery on Mount Athos.
Laskaris
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The House of Laskaris, Latinized as Lascaris, was a Byzantine Greek noble family which rose to prominence during the late Byzantine period. The members of the family formed the ruling dynasty of the Empire of Nicaea, a Byzantine rump state that existed from the 1204 sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade until the restoration of the Empire under the Palaeologan dynasty in 1261.
Hyperpyron of Theodore II Lascaris (r. 1254–1258)
Arms of Lascaris di Ventimiglia at the Palais Lascaris, Nice, France