Amasya trials
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The 1921 Amasya trials were special ad hoc trials, organized by the Turkish National Movement, with the purpose to kill en masse the Greek representatives of Pontus region under a legal pretext. They
The town of Amasya, in the interior of the Black Sea coast, where the trials and the executions took place.
A number of the soccer players of Pontus Merzifounta (pictured) were sentenced and hanged, without concrete evidence of anti-Turkish activity: Turkish nationalists felt offended because the team's jersey displayed the colours of the Greek flag (blue-white).
Euthymios Agritellis
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Saint Euthymios of Zela the Ethno-Hieromartyr,, born Eustratios Agritellis, 1876–1921, was the last resident bishop of the Diocese of Zela, near Amasia, Western Pontus, which he served from June 12, 1
St. Chrysostomos of Smyrna and the Hierarchs with Him, Together With Clergy and Laity, Massacred in the Asia Minor Catastrophe. From left to right; Saint Euthymios of Zila, Grigorios of Kydonia, Chrysostomos of Smyrna, Procopius of Iconium, Ambrosios of Moschonisia