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This is my first posting although I have been reading and lurking for about a year. WI a different Empire of Trebizond had come into existance. I am not talking about the post-fourth crusade Empire of Trebizond. I would like to develope something new and different. This New Empire of Trebizond(NET) would be based in Trebizond but would have expanded eastward and integrated the various Georgian, Armenian and Caucasian Albanian states. It would be an offshoot of the Byzantine Empire and would be Greek with Georgian and Armenian influences. The NET emperor would be the Autokrator of the East and would not be heir to the throne in Constantinople. Here are my reasons: 1) I believe the Comnenus family was from this area of the empire. 2)The Comnenus emperors of the OTL ET were intermarried with Georgian aristocracy. 3) My plan would be to somehow have this area be made independent of Constantinople with the Comnenoi as the hereditary ruling dynasty. 4) The Byzantine empire would have to be stronger in this ATL and still control Anatolia. 5)I read somewhere that Trebizond itself was surrounded by mountainS with only one or two passes between it and the Anatolian interior. These passes could be heavily fortified to prevent invasion. 6)The NET would have pursued missionary diplomacy at a far earlier time. There might even be Christianized Turkic tribes on the eastern frontier of the NET. I have more thoughts but this will do for now. What do y'all think about this? Is it totally ASB?