Limnia ( el, τα Λιμνία) was the westernmost subdivision of the medieval

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, consisting of the southern coastline of the

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around the mouth of the

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traces its origins to a

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supply base named Kinte, used by Emperor

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in the winter solstice of 1140. By the next century, it had "finally became the Trapezuntine stronghold of Limnia, with a

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and thirteen imperial fortresses; it figures on portolan maps until the sixteenth century." In 1297, the Trapezuntine Emperor John II Grand Komnenos died while in Limnia. In 1317, according to Bryer, although it "was the last and lowliest of the

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of Amaseia its bishops assumed the metropolitan rights of the inland city."Bryer, "Greeks and Türkmens", p. 129 On the other hand,

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explains that the metropolitan of Amaseia, one Callistus, who had been appointed to fill a long-standing vacancy in 1315, had been unable to enter his see and in 1317 a synodal decree directed him to reside in Limnia "until conditions improved and the Turks would permit him to enter Amaseia." In 1384 is the final reference to a bishop of Limnia: a surviving document records that the bishop was directed to take over the administration of Amaseia because the metropolitan could not enter the territory. In 1386, Tajeddin '' çelebi'', emir of Limnia, was succeeded by his son Altamur. Between the two dates, Limnia irrevocably slipped from Trapezuntine control and became a Turkoman possession. Its latest mention is in 1580, on the

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.Anthony Bryer, "The littoral of the empire of Trebizond in two fourteenth-century portolano maps", ''Archeion Pontou'', 24 (1961), p. 101

References

{{coord missing, Turkey Administrative divisions of the Empire of Trebizond Historical regions in Turkey History of Samsun Province