 | Edmund Burke - History - 1855 - 1078 pages
...under Genoese control. But in 1453 Mohamed IT. captured Constantinople; in 1462 he took Trebizond ; and, after the lapse of thirteen more years, the wealthy and powerful Kafia surrendered to the same ruthless conqueror, without attempting the slightest resistance. The... | |
 | History - 1855 - 1076 pages
...under Genoese control. But in 1453 Mohamed II. captured Constantinople ; in 1462 he took Trebizond ; and, after the lapse of thirteen more years, the wealthy and powerful Kaffa surrendered to the same ruthless conqueror, without attempting the slightest resistance. The place surrendered without... | |
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... but down to the middle of the fifteenth century the Genoese colonists at Kaffa continued to enlarge their possessions, so that all the most important harbours on the southern coast of the Euxine came under Genoese control. But in 1453 Mohamed II.... 