The Tzanichitai (), singular Tzanichites () and feminine form Tzanichitissa (), was one of the most important noble families of the late Empire of Trebizond.
The Tzanichitai (), singular Tzanichites () and feminine form Tzanichitissa (), was one of the most important noble families of the late Empire of Trebizond.
==History== The family hailed from the castle and namesake region of Tzanicha (; ), near modern Torul in Turkey. Modern scholars such as Anthony Bryer and Alexios Savvides have linked the family to the Zans ( in Greek), a local tribe related to the Georgians. In the civil wars that tore the Empire of Trebizond in the middle of the 14th century, the Tzanichites family sided with the pro-Byzantine faction under the Scholarioi. After the civil wars ended, the Kabazites family may have replaced the Tzanichitai as hereditary governors () of the province of Chaldia. The family continues to be attested after the Fall of Trebizond to the Ottoman Empire: Ottoman tax registers contain references to its members up to 1515.
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