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Formerly in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, now in the Turkish Province of Osmaniye. This Castle was deeded by the Armenian King Leo I (confusingly, also called Leo II, and sometimes Levon I/II) to the Teutonic Knights in 1212, and was subsequently…

Attributed to the workshop of Apolloni di Giovanni di Tomaso, Italian, said to come from the Palazzo Strozzi. The front panel depicts a battle at the city of Trebizond, Constantinople is at the upper left. The battle shows the fall of Trebizond to…

Detail depicting Alexios (r. 1349-90) and his wife, Theodora. The Chrysobull was to the Dionysiou monastery on Mount Athos. The Chrysobull gave the founder of the monastery a sum of 100 somia of silver (about 1000 gold hyperpyra) in order to build…

Part of the series of defensive walls surrounded the city, various stages of the walls’ construction date back to the Roman Empire, with some evidence of the existence of the citadel (in its earliest construction) dating back as far as 2000 BCE. Most…

Obverse: St. Eugenius on horseback, holding cross, inscription: A / EV-N (St. Eugenius, heavily abbreviated)

Reverse: Basil on horseback, holding three-pronged scepter. Inscriptiion: BA / M (Basil Megas)

Obverse: St. Eugenius standing, holding cross. Inscription: O AGi EVGENI (St. Eugenius)

Reverse: John Standing, holding labarum-headed scepter, Manus Dei at upper right. Inscription: Iω Ο ΚΟΜΝΟC (John Komnenos)

Obverse: Hetum and Queen Zabel standing near cross staff, with the Armenain text "By God's will" around it.

Reverse: Lion walking to the right, around it the Armenian text "Hetum, King of the Armenians".

obv: King seated cross-legged on a throne adorned with lions. He holds a globus cruciger and fleur-de-lis. Armenian inscription: Hetoum King of the Armenians

rev: Potent cross with four stars (or lines, depending on the type). Armenian inscription:…

King seated on throne ornamented with lions, holding cross and fleur-de-lis. Armenian inscription: "+ Levon King of the Armenians" / Two lions rampant back-to-back, each with heads reverted; patriarchal cross with two bars between them. "+ By the…