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 sung Greek, it succumbed saving few elements of the Ionian. […]
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Sinope was a city of ancient Paphlagonia. The time of its foundation is unknown. The first settlers were the inhabitants of Miletus around the 8th century BC, in agreement with the ancient inhabitants. Herodotus considers the Cimmerians to be the first settlers, others consider the Argonauts. The name comes from the mythological daughter of the
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Pafra, also written as Bafra, is one of the cities of Pontus. It is located in the prefecture of Samsun next to the mouth of the river Aly and had about eight thousand inhabitants. Its inhabitants were Greeks, although they spoke Turkish and were distinguished for their lively religious and national feeling. The tobacco
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We are happy that our representatives of Greek origin of Pontic descent in the Greek Parliament, but also the sympathizers of the Greek Pontians, dared to raise a voice of protest, thus stigmatizing the guilty indifference of the respective Greek Governments for the crime committed in the past. We are happy that the struggles for
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Five hundred years of slavery of the nation under the most desperate yoke of the Turks, has no sadder page than the one left by the bloody era of the Ottoman aga. No analogy can be made for the catastrophe with the periodic massacres which from time to time applied by the Turkish governments against
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It was Friday, August 11, 1917. From dawn, a darkness could still be seen in the background, which was soon growing. It was not long before we could clearly see the smoky chimneys of the Russian fleet, which in a short time reached the outskirts of the port and immediately started bombing. Romans and Turks
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The Turkish-speaking Greek Pontians – When and why they spoke Turkish – In which area of Pontus did they live – Why did they come to Greece and where did they settle. With the permission of the writer and lawyer of Kilkis Mr. Theodoros Pavlidis, I publish the following texts. Where comment is judged, there
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The two Teaching Guides chronicle the presence of Hellenism in the lands of Asia Minor and its Pontus region (in present day Turkey) stretching back from Homer’s time through 1923. In this region, people of Greek ancestry created a vibrant culture which endured even after their conquest by the Ottoman Turks in the 15th century.
The Asia Minor Catastrophe and the Ottoman Greek Genocide: Essays on Asia Minor, Pontos, and Eastern Thrace, 1913–1923 edited by George N. Shirinian, Executive Director of the Zoryan Institute, is a compilation of innovative papers given by distinguished scholars at two academic conferences organized by the Pontian Greek Society of Chicago and published by The
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This is an impeccably written and carefully researched study by a prominent political scientist. Harry Psomiades focuses on a most critical period (1921-23) that has left a permanent mark on the fortunes of 20th century Greece and Turkey. Two powerful personalities dominate the narrative: Eleftherios Venizelos and Fridtjof Nansen. The former was a prominent statesman
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