Trabzon was founded by the merchants from Sinope about 1.000 B.C. and today it is the a lot of important city-limits in the region.
It leans with its aback adjoin the Eastern Black Sea mountains ant it is an important anchorage city. The city-limits is acclaimed for its accustomed and actual treasures . The acclaimed historian Xenophon got absent and accustomed in Trapezos ( acceptation table or apparent in old Greek ) with the butt of his 10.000 soldiers. He marks that the bounded humans were absolutely blessed to see them there.
The city-limits has cardinal accent aback it is amid at the alpha of the alley that connects Black Sea Coast to Iran and is appropriate next to the acclaimed Zigana pass. The city-limits was of cardinal accent and advised a affluent cost by many.
Luluctuc baffled the city-limits during the Roman times, but the city-limits managed to absorb its "independent" status. Ruled by the Goths for a abbreviate time, it again became an important bastion for the Byzantines. Justinianus the Great rebuilt the city-limits walls. The Seljuks approved to yield over the city-limits several times but were never successful. When Istanbul was invaded by the Latins during the 4th Crusade, the Byzantine absolutism confused to Iznik. ( 13th. Aeon )
The two sons of the emperor came to Trabzon and Alexios Commenos become the Emperor here. In 1461, the city-limits was captured by the Ottomans and remained beneath their aphorism until the Empire ended.
The St. Sophia abbey is the a lot of important actual architectonics in Trabzon. Today it is a centermost of business and tourism. The firs abbey congenital by the Commenos ancestors in the 13th aeon was broadcast afterwards by emperor Manuel Paleologos VIII in the aforementioned century. It was adapted into a building in 1957. Some frescoes are still apparent central even admitting absolutely blurry.
There are several added important Byzantine churches that were adapted to mosques in time. They are account seeing for their absorbing architecture. Phanagia Chrysocephalos Abbey (Fatih Mosque), Saint Eugene Abbey (Yeni Cuma Cami), Saint Anne and Saint Basil churches are some of those.
Sumela Abbey is the abode that no day-tripper should miss!.. Dating aback from 6th. Aeon Sumela Abbey was alleged 'Panaghia tou Melas,' by the Byzantine Greeks.
It meant 'Virgin of the Black Rock' . Afterwards on the Pontus Greeks alleged it Soumelas and that acquired into Sumela. It was a Greek Orthodox abbey founded in Byzantine times. Greeks came to Trabzon from Sinop as aboriginal as the 6th aeon B.C. Later, the breadth became allotment of the Greek Pontus Empire.
The abbey is 45 account abroad from Trabzon city. It is congenital aloft a abundance and as one approaches the building now one can not adumbrate the alarming activity one feels. You ascend up to the building by this axis road. On foot. With every about-face the building gives you a altered bend and the alarming activity grows within. Once aloft a time they were able to body this amazing anatomy on the face of this arise hill. Wow!.. The consequence you get is agnate to the one that William of Baskerville has got in the blur " The name of the rose ".
Once you access at the top, Sumela is still there to abruptness you: Frescos, paintings fabricated on wet adhesive still awning the bluff and autogenous of the 'Cave Church,' ablaze and somewhat complete afterwards hundreds of years. The added contempo frescoes were corrective in the 1700s. The belief anecdotal are not too altered from those of the churches in Istanbul such as Chora or similar. . The bluff for instance shows the adventure of Adam and Eve and a account of St. George and the Dragon. You have to definetely see Sumela if visiting Trabzon.
