Panagia Soumela is a monastery near Trabzon, a symbol of 16 centuries of Pontian Hellenism. According to tradition, in 386 the Athenian monks Barnabas and Sophronios were led to the deceptive mountain peaks of Pontus after the revelation of the Virgin Mary, in order to establish her solitary abode. There, in a cave on the […]
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Name, area, population.The coastal section of the NE is called Pontos. Central Asia, which stretches from the region of Sinope to the eastern tip of the Black Sea (Batumi), in an area of 71,500 square kilometers with 2,048,250 inhabitants at that time, of whom 697,000 were Greek Orthodox Christians. Other geographical data. a) Mountains.At a
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The most famous cities of Pontus were founded or re-established by the colonists of the wider Greek area, who were the connecting links between the metropolis and the new homelands. These cities developed rich cultural and economic activity, either in connection with the mother city, or independently. The first colonists were the Ionians from Miletus,
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The jewel and the boast of Kerasounta. Its old castles with huge boulders look as if they were built to decorate the landscape and not to fortify it. They project so naturally, gently, calmly. Access to the castle and the citadel was possible from many sides.The plateau on the citadel was always covered with grass
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It is a town and port west of Trabzon. In the place of today’s Platanos was built the ancient Ermonassa which was named Farnakia during the reign of Farnakis the 1st. It was inhabited by 2000 people, half of whom were Christians. These years the Greek state’s glory goes back in the depths of the
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Kotyora was a coastal settlement on the south coast of the Black Sea, east of Sinope, in the region of the Tiberians. The location of the settlement has not been determined with certainty. According to the prevailing version, Kotyora is located in Kraz Limani, north of the modern city of Ordu and 45 km north-east
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These villages are located east of Kalopotamos, in the region of Rizaio (Rizouda). Lazou is at a distance of one hour, while Klito one hour above Lazou, but because these villages are closer to Ofi (Ofiouda), they are almost whole together with the Greek villages of Ofi. Nowadays, Klito was in decline because its inhabitants
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In 1922 and after the end of the war events that occupied the Balkans and especially Greece and Turkey during the decade 1912-1922, the Greeks of Asia Minor and Thrace were forced as a result of international agreements to move away from their ancestral homes. As early as 1829, many Pontians fled to southern Russia,
The dialect sung by the Greeks who had settled on the shores of the Black Sea since ancient times, and after the last war were forcibly exchanged from the beginning Ionian, and it took great development in Greece where under the influence of the common Greek, it survived saving elements of the Ionian. The dialect
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Perhaps it is commonplace to say that the history of a people is the history of its language or, conversely, that the history of the language of a people is the history of that people. A confirmation that is confirmed in the case of the Pontic dialect. Thus we can see in the Pontic dialect
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