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  1. Aug 12, 2019 · Demetrios Ioannou. Today, around 500,000 Pontics live in Greece – around 5% of the total population (Credit: Demetrios Ioannou) Sitaridi’s ancestors began leaving Greece around the 7th Century ...

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  2. 3 days ago · Turkey refuses to recognize any Genocide its fore-bearers have committed. Today is the anniversary of the 105 years since the Genocide of the Greeks of Asia Minor and Pontus. Many people are aware ...

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  4. The Pontic Greeks (Pontic: Ρωμαίοι, Ρωμιοί; Turkish: Pontus Rumları or Karadeniz Rumları; Greek: Πόντιοι, romanized: Póndii or Ελληνοπόντιοι, romanized: Ellinopóndii; Georgian: პონტოელი ბერძნები, romanized: P'ont'oeli Berdznebi), also Pontian Greeks or simply Pontians, are an ethnically Greek group indigenous to the region of ...

  5. May 17, 2019 · Striking black and white photographs taken of Pontic Greeks before and during the genocide are also displayed in museums, galleries and Pontic restaurants worldwide. Today, on the 100th anniversary of the genocide, the aim of all the Pontic associations throughout the world is for every nation to recognize the crime against humanity committed ...

  6. Mar 27, 2023 · The Greek intellectual revival at the turn of the nineteenth century dismissed Byzantine and Ottoman legacies in the history of the Greeks, opting instead to focus on the cultural and historical heritage of Antiquity. 49 Only in the mid-nineteenth century was the Byzantine legacy integrated into Greek state- and identity-building projects, as ...

  7. Jan 12, 2022 · January 12, 2022. An artist’s impression of the main entrance to the Pontian Hellenism Center at Hellinikon. Credit: Pontian Greeks of Sourmena. The global center for Pontian Hellenism to be built at the Hellinikon former airport was unveiled at an event in Athens on Tuesday.

  8. Jan 7, 2024 · January 7, 2024. Sumela monastery in Trabzon, Turkey. Credit: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen /Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0. Pontian Greeks may have been forced out of their homeland one hundred years ago, but their language, Pontic Greek, still lives on today, in communities near Turkey’s Black Sea coast.

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