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Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 30
Romans) to prevent Alexis from extending his empire westward to Nicaea.
But the power of the Trebizond empire did not increase, al though the city from which it took its name became wealthy and populous. N ot by arms but by tribute did they maintain peace with the Seljuk sultans for the'greater part of the thirteenth century. A series of more or less incompetent emperors continued to hold a semi-independent position amid alternate intrigues and struggles with Turkoman and Turkish tribes on land and the Genoese who attacked by sea, until the advent of Timur, who reduced the boasted empire to a state of vassalage. The emperor Andronicus, indeed, made a brave and successful defense against the Seljuks, under the son of the sultan Ala-ad - din, but after the capture of Constantinople by Mahomet 11 Emperor John consented to become his vassal, at once entering into negotiations with the Christian kings of Georgia and the lesser Armenia. He died however before he could profit by their aid, and when Mahomet returned from his triumph in the Morea and offered the new emperor David the alternative of un conditional surrender or massacre he chose the former. A large part of the population was sent to repopulate Constantinople. °and so ended the empire of Trebizond, famous for its wealth and the luxury that wealth engenders, and for the beauty of its women, whose princesses were sought as brides by the Byzantine emperors, by western nobles, and by Mahommedan sultans.
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