Greetings all,
Today we commemorate the life of the Emperor Manuel III of Trebizond who passed on March 5th in 1417 AD:
During his reign the armies of the Central Asian conqueror
Tamerlaine swept through Ottoman territories and defeated them in the Battle of Ankara.
Manuel
III had contributed 20 Byzantine galleys to Tamerlaine's campaign. The
shattering of the Ottomans extended the life and security of Trebizond
for
several decades.
-Marcus Cassius Julianus
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