Flag of Trebizond
The Highlander who founded Sevastopol.
Khouter MacKenzie, in the Crimea, is so named from Admiral MacKenzie, who. commanded the Black Sea fleet under Katherine II, and fortified Sebastopol. In 1738 MacKenzie of Conansby was a colonel under the Empress Anne, and Captain MacKenzie of Redcastle, another officer in the Russian service in 1784, was killed in a duel near Constantinople.
Which, until 1204 was part of the Byzantine Empire.
1204 it became part of the Empire of Trebizond – built by Andronicus I Comnenus’ two grandsons with the help of their aunt Tamar of Georgia.
In 1475, the Trebizond Empire was handed over to the Ottomans.
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