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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 Kingdom of Pontus was divided into two distinct areas: the coastal region and the Pontic interior. The coastal region bordering the Black Sea was separated from the mountainous inland area by the Pontic Alps, which run parallel to the coast.
The Pontic Greeks (Pontic: Ρωμαίοι, Ρωμιοί; [a] Turkish: Pontus Rumları or Karadeniz Rumları; Greek: Πόντιοι, Ελληνοπόντιοι [b] [c]), also Pontian Greeks or simply Pontians, are an ethnically Greek [18] [19] group indigenous to the region of Pontus, in northeastern Anatolia (modern-day Turkey).
Pontus, ancient district in northeastern Anatolia adjoining the Black Sea. In the 1st century bc it briefly contested Rome’s hegemony in Anatolia. An independent Pontic kingdom with its capital at Amaseia (modern Amasya) was established at the end of the 4th century bc in the wake of Alexander’s conquests.
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Aug 12, 2019 · The language of the Pontic Greeks – ethnic Greeks who settled on the coast of the Turkish Black Sea – evolved completely differently to the language in their homeland.
Geographically, Pontus divided into two distinct parts—a narrow, coastal strip,and a mountainous, inland region interspersed with fertile river valleys and separated from the sea by the Pontic Alps, which run parallel and close to the coast and which limited routes of communications between the two zones.
Protected by the towering Pontic Alps, the region has a long tradition of independence. The Kingdom of Pontus which was ruled primarily by the six Mithridates kings (I-VI) was a Greek state which lasted from 291 BC up until the Roman conquest in 63 BC.
