Trabzon & Boztepe

“Take my camel, dear,” said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass… Rose Macaulay’s novel ‘The Towers of Trebizond’ opens with this sentence and carries the reader, on a camel’s back, on an amusing journey toward this ancient Black Sea city. But why would an English writer, in the middle of the twentieth century, name her novel after a city on the Black Sea?