Trebizond

Ionians founded Miletus, which, in turn, founded Sinope, which, eventually, colonized Trebizond.

In the Pontus, the language of the first Greek colonizers of Trebizond was the Ionic Greek of Sinope.

The fall of Trebizond to the Ottomans in 1461 led to the city becoming majority Muslim.

Quick comparative literary judgments became an epistolary specialty: “when she is good + sick from Durrell’s sticky liqueurs, have her try ‘The Towers of Trebizond’ by Rose Macaulay at 80 — the driest champagne.”

Rose Macaulay’s “The Towers of Trebizond” works wonders.