Trabzon

Trabzon, is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey. It is the capital of Trabzon Province. Trabzon is well known for its fish production. It started as a trading colony of ancient Greece and later became capital of the Empire of Trabizond.

Trabzon Media

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  Coin of Trapezous from the 4th century BC in the British Museum. The coin promotes the colonial Greek city as a 'table of plenty'.

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  Thálatta! Thálatta! ("The Sea! The Sea!"). Trebizond was the first Greek city the Ten Thousand reached on their retreat from Persia. 19th c. illustration by Herman Vogel.

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  Parts of the city walls of Trabzon and the Eugenius Aqueduct are among the oldest remaining structures in the city.

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  Fresco of Alexios III between his wife and mother at the Panagia Theoskepastos Monastery, as drawn by Charles Texier

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  Fantastical depiction of Trebizond by Pisanello in a fresco of the Sant'Anastasia church in Verona, painted between 1436 and 1438

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  Historic mansions in Akçaabat (formerly Platana village)

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  Postcard of the art nouveau style theatre/cinema in Trabzon

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  Suleiman the Magnificent was born in Trebizond on November 6, 1494. He vastly enlarged the territories of the Ottoman Empire, which became one of the world's leading superpowers in the 16th century, together with its arch-rival in the Mediterranean, the Spanish Empire. Portrait after Titian in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.