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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.
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.
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26 lip 2024 · Pontus: Alexander’s vision of empire? Map of the Kingdom of Pontus. Credit: Photograph by Javierfv1212, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Mithridates hailed from the Kingdom of Pontus, a cultural melting pot that Alexander the Great would have approved of. The north of Pontus’s snow-clad Alps was a largely Hellenic-dominated coastline.
Today, most Pontic Greeks live in Northern Greece, especially in and around Thessaloniki in Macedonia. Those from southern Russia , Ukraine , and Crimea are often referred to as "Northern Pontic [Greeks]", in contrast to those from "South Pontus", which strictly speaking is Pontus proper.
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...
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.
