Byzantine Emperor of Trebizond Sam Topalidis (2024) Pontic Historian and Ethnologist Introduction Alexios IV Grand Komnenos (reign 1417–1429) was the emperor of the small Byzantine empire of […]
Sam Topalidis (Pontic historian) 2018 Introduction Trabzon is a town with over 300,000 people in northeast Turkey on the Black Sea coast (Figure 1). It was settled […]
Sam Topalidis 2017 (Pontic Historian) Introduction Historically, the single- and double-headed eagle emblems signified major symbols of power. Their origin is from Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BC […]
