Pontus (region)
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Pontus or Pontos is a region within Anatolia on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in the modern-day eastern Black Sea region of Turkey, in West Asia. The name was applied to the coastal reg
Traditional rural Pontic house.
Sumela Monastery in Pontic Mountains
Christian population in 1896
Pontic Greeks
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The Pontic Greeks, also Pontian Greeks or simply Pontians, are an ethnically Greek group indigenous to the region of Pontus, in northeastern Anatolia. They share a common Pontic Greek culture that is
Funerary stele of two Greek warriors found on the Black Sea coast, Taman peninsula, 4th century BC
Ancient Greek coin from Sinope, coast depicting the head of a nymph and an eagle with raised wings, 4th century BC
Sinope fortress in 2011
Kerasounta Island, used by Ancient Greek colonists as early as the 5th century BC