Pontos
Ancient Greece
The Stunning Ancient Greek Treasures of the Pontus Kingdom
Ancient Greek treasures dated from the Kingdom of Pontus, a Hellenistic state located in the northeastern part of Anatolia, will be displayed in a new museum in the city of Samsun, Turkey.
Among the antiquities is the Amisos Treasure. It...
Greek news
Santa: The Ruins of the Deserted Greek Town in Pontus
The Greek town of Santa, Dumanli in Turkish, situated in Pontus, has been a ghost town suffering neglect ever since the Greeks were forced to flee their ancestral homes in the exchange of populations with Turkey in 1923.
Santa, surrounded...
Greece
Pontic Greek Still Spoken by Thousands in Northern Turkey
Pontic Greek, which closely resembles Ancient Greek still lives on today, in communities near Turkey's Black Sea coast.
Culture
Thousands Gather for Greek Pontic Celebration in Thessaloniki (video)
More than 2,500 dancers participated in a celebration of Greek Pontic culture held on Saturday in Thessaloniki.
The event was organized by the Panpontian Federation of Greece to honor the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Pontian genocide.
Thousands of...
Europe
Pontos-Born Imamoglu Wins Race for Istanbul
Turkey's ruling party has lost control of Istanbul after a re-run of the city's mayoral election, latest results show.
The candidate for the main opposition party, Ekrem Imamoglu, won 54 percent of the vote with nearly all ballots counted.
He won...
Culture
Pontic Greek Still Spoken by Thousands in Northern Turkey
Pontic Greek, which closely resembles Ancient Greek still lives on today, in communities near Turkey's Black Sea coast.
Europe
Istanbul’s Mayor-to-Be Has Pontian Roots (video)
Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, has apparently elected an opposition candidate from Pontos as its new mayor in the local elections held on Sunday.
Ekrem Imamoglu won by a razor-thin majority and, if the objection raised by President Erdogan's ruling party...
Greece
Pontian Greeks Honor Genocide Victims in Athens Ceremony (video)
Hundreds of people gathered in Athens' Syntagma Square on Saturday to honor the hundreds of thousands of Greeks died or displaced from their homes by the Turks in early 20th century at the annual commemoration of the Pontian Genocide.
Pontian...
Culture
Why Turkey’s Historic Churches Are Being Turned Into Mosques
The Christian churches in Turkey that have been turned into mosques is the subject of an interesting report in the Assyrian International News Agency.
As Christians in Turkey have dwindled down into a tiny minority, the remaining follow the same...