Trabzon facts for kids

Trabzon, is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey. It is the capital of Trabzon Province. Trabzon is well known for its fish production which it meets 20% of the total fish production in Turkey. It was started as a trading colony of ancient Greece and later became capital of the Empire of Trabizond.

Images for kids

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  Coin of Trapezous from the 4th century BCE in the British Museum. The coin promotes the colonial Greek city as a 'table of plenty'.

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  Thálatta! Thálatta! ("The Sea! The Sea!"). Trebizond was the first Greek city the Ten Thousand reached on their retreat from Persia. 19th c. illustration by Herman Vogel.

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  Fresco of Alexios III between his wife and mother at the Panagia Theoskepastos Monastery, as drawn by Charles Texier.

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  Fantastical depiction of Trebizond by Pisanello in a fresco of the Sant'Anastasia church in Verona, painted between 1436 and 1438.

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  Historic mansions in Akçaabat (formerly Platana village)

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  Postcard of the theatre/cinema in Trabzon.

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  Laz men from Trebizond, 1910s

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  Suleiman the Magnificent was born in Trebizond on November 6, 1494. He was one of the greatest emperors in history and vastly enlarged the territories of the Ottoman Empire, which became one of the world's leading superpowers in the 16th century, together with its arch-rival in the Mediterranean, the Spanish Empire. Portrait after Titian in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

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  Postcard of Trabzon showing the national dance Horon.

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  A view from the Black Sea Technical University campus

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  Photograph of a football team of Trabzonspor in 1920-1925.

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  Trebizond from the sea by Ivan Aivazovsky

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  Engraving of the port at Çömlekçi by C. Lapante

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  Trebizond by Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager

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  Trebizond from the sea by Y.M. Tadevossian

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  Trebizond from the south by Godfrey Vigne

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  The quarantine station by Jules Laurens

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  Street view by Nikolay Lanceray