peatana

Updated: February 20, 2026

Along the coast the Russians found only comparatively weak resistance, so that they were able to land fresh forces west of Trebizond and occupy the town of Peatana, about ten miles to the west on the Black Sea. A desperate struggle, however, developed for the possession of the Trebizond-Erzerum road.

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