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Pontus (Greek: Πόντος Pontos) was a Hellenistic kingdom centered in the historical region of Pontus in modern-day Turkey, and ruled by the Mithridatic dynasty of Persian origin, [2] [3] [4] [5] which may have been directly related to Darius the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty.
The geographical characteristics of the Pontus combined with the historical circumstances of the region's colonization by the Greeks were important factors which defined the nature of this ‘world apart’, and these have been the dominant themes of modern historical study.
The Kingdom of Pontus was an ancient Hellenistic state located on the southern coast of the Black Sea, existing from the 3rd century BCE until it was absorbed by the Roman Empire in 63 BCE.
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 was situated in a remote area on the edge of the Greek and Roman world and was divided into two distinct parts – a narrow co- astal plain and a mountainous inland region.
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.
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 & some greek colonies under Mithridate's rule) in accordance with V. Yanko-Hombach, A.S. Gilbert, N. Panin, P. M. Dolukhanov: The Black Sea Flood ...
