Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Greek presence in Pontus remained vibrant during the early modern period up until the 20th century, when, following the Pontic Greek genocide and the 1923 population exchange with Turkey, Pontic Greeks migrated primarily to Greece and around the Caucasus, including in the country of Georgia.
Pontic Greek (Pontic: Ρωμαίικα, romanized:Rhomaiika, [ a ] Greek: Ποντιακά, romanized:Pontiaka; [ b ] Turkish: Rumca or Romeika) [ 3 ][ 4 ] is a variety of Modern Greek indigenous to the Pontus region on the southern shores of the Black Sea, northeastern Anatolia, and the Eastern Turkish and Caucasus region.
Republic of Pontus. The Republic of Pontus (Greek: Δημοκρατία του Πόντου, romanized: Dimokratía tou Póntou) was a proposed Pontic Greek state on the southern coast of the Black Sea. Its territory would have encompassed much of historical Pontus and today forms part of Turkey's Black Sea Region.
The Republic of Pontus (Greek: Δημοκρατία του Πόντου, Dimokratía tou Póntou) was a proposed Pontic Greek state on the southern coast of the Black Sea. Its territory would have encompassed much of historical Pontus in north-eastern Asia Minor, and today forms part of Turkey 's Black Sea Region. The proposed state was ...
The Greek genocide is remembered in a number of modern works. Not Even My Name by Thea Halo is the story of the survival, at age ten, of her mother Sano (Themia) Halo (original name Euthemia "Themia" Barytimidou, Pontic Greek: Ευθυμία Βαρυτιμίδου), [182] [183] along the death march during the Greek genocide that annihilated ...
ISBN 9781316453766. The Pontic Greek genocide refers to the massacre and deportation inflicted against ethnic Greeks living in the Ottoman Empire between 1914 and 1923. The name originated from the Greek population living on the south-eastern coast of the Black Sea (in northern Turkey).
Far more significant in increasing the Greek presence in Georgia was the settlement there of Pontic Greeks and Eastern Anatolia Greeks.Large-scale Pontic Greek settlement in Georgia followed the Ottoman conquest of the Empire of Trebizond in 1461, when Greek refugees from the eastern Black Sea coastal districts, the Pontic Alps, and then Eastern Anatolia fled or migrated to neighbouring ...
The Greek diaspora, also known as Omogenia (Greek: Ομογένεια, romanized: Omogéneia), [1] [2] are the communities of Greeks living outside of Greece and Cyprus.. Such places historically (dating to the ancient period) include, Albania, North Macedonia, southern Russia, Ukraine, Asia Minor and Pontus (in today's Turkey), Georgia, Egypt, Sudan, southern Italy (the so-called "Magna ...