When did Trebizond come to possess stuff in the crimean, and for how long?
>>2999644
Crimean Tatars supplied raiders and vanguard archers to Turkish Turks for more than 500 years. before that time. Cumania was a natural ally of Seljuks.
With time they started trading in slaves. They sold slavic peoples from Ruthenia to Turks, Byzantines and beyond. Sclavus is he root of "slav" meaning literal "slave".
Trebizond was another state which used the slavic girls as boys as concubines. At that point they were influential in the region.
>>3000231
>Sclavus is he root of "slav" meaning literal "slave"
>>2999644
Greeks had colonized Crimea thousands of years before--->became roman vassal state----> became thema(province of Byzantine empire----> became part of Trebizond after the Byzantine empire was split between the empire of Nicaea, Constantinople, and Epirus.
>>3000231
>Turkish Turks
>>3000231
>turkish turks