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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 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.
Pontus was an ancient region located on the southern coast of the Black Sea, in what is now northeastern Turkey. It was named after the Greek word "Pontus," meaning "sea," referring to its proximity to the Black Sea.
The Roman province of Bithynia et Pontus (et is Latin "and") comprised a coastal strip of hilly country containing tracts of intensely fertile, arable land, in a mild and moist climate, on the southern shore of the Black Sea from the Bosphorus to approximately the city of Trabzon.
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.
16 cze 2020 · Map of the Pontic Kingdom before the reign of Mithridates VI (darkest purple), after his conquests (purple), and his conquests in the first Mithridatic wars (pink); little adds (ancient shorelines &...
Map 87 Pontus-Phasis. Compiled by David Braund and T. Sinclair (Turkey), 1997. with the assistance of Diane Braund. Introduction. Pontus. The land of Pontus has two main parts, both of which belonged to the Mithridatic kingdom of Pontus in the Hellenistic period.
