ID: 901001333 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001333	Record Type: Event/Narrative

	Conquest of Trebizond (Eurasian history, 1461)

Note: The conquest of Trebizond, an Empire in northeastern Anatolia and the last outpost of the Byzantine Empire. It was conquered after a month-long siege of the capital city by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, who took its ruler and his family into captivity.

Display Date: 1461

Names:

	Conquest of Trebizond (Eurasian history, 1461) (preferred,English-P,D,P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Named Events (P)
		....<European history> (P)
		........Conquest of Trebizond (Eurasian history, 1461) (I)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... conquest
	.....(events (activities), Events (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	located in .... Empire of Trebizond
	.....(Byzantine Empire) (TGN)

	protagonist is .... Mehmed II (Ottoman sultan and patron, 1432-1481)
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

Sources:

	Conquest of Trebizond (Eurasian history, 1461)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	................Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)