List of The Non-Turkic (and Non-Muslim) Anatolian States
- Three Anatolian regions remained Christian until their defeat and Ottoman conquest:
- Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia with Tarsus and Sis (now Kozan) as patriarchal seats, until 1375,
- Empire of Trebizond, initially (1204) a breakaway Byzantine territory, in Trebizond (now Trabzon) on the south eastern Black Sea coastline,
- Philadelphia (present-day Alaşehir) held by the Byzantines until the Ottoman conquest in 1390.
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