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Coins of the Empire of Trebizond, 1204 - 1461 A.D.
After Theodore Gabras recaptured Trebizond from the Seljuk Turks c. 1075, Chaldia became a semi-autonomous duchy with Trebizond as its capital. In April 1204, Alexius I Megas Comnenus, a grandson of the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos I, took control of Trebizond with assistance from Queen Tamar of Georgia, and was proclaimed emperor. After the Fourth Crusade overthrew Alexios V and established the Latin Empire, the Empire of Trebizond became, alongside the Empire of Nicaea and the Despotate of Epirus one of three Byzantine successor states to claim the imperial Byzantine throne. Despite the Nicaean reconquest of Constantinople in 1261, the Emperors of Trebizond continued to style themselves as Roman emperor for two decades and to press their claim on the imperial throne. Emperor John II of Trebizond gave up the Roman imperial title and claim to Constantinople 21 years after the Nicaeans had recaptured the city, altering his imperial title from "Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans" to "Emperor and Autocrat of all the East, Iberia and Perateia." The Trapezuntine monarchy survived the longest among the Byzantine states. The restored empire ended with the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453. Trebizond lasted until 1461, when the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II conquered it after a month-long siege and took its ruler and his family into captivity. The Crimean Principality of Theodoro, an offshoot of Trebizond, lasted another 14 years, falling to the Ottomans in 1475.