Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Trebizond (Ottoman Wars).

This city, where the last representative of the family of Comnenus had taken refuge after the fall of Constantinople, was besieged by the Turks, under Mohammed II, in 1461. After a brief resistance the city surrendered, and the last vestige of the Empire of the East was swept away.