Pontus (region)
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pontus-region-162-15733448
title:
Pontus (region)
text:
Pontus or Pontos is a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in the modern-day eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region and its mountainous hinterland by the Greeks who colonized the area in the Archaic period and derived from the Greek name of the Black Sea: Εύξεινος Πόντος (Eúxinos Póntos), "Hospitable Sea", or simply Pontos as early as the Aeschylean Persians and Herodotus' Histories. Having originally no specific name, the region east of
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Region in the eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus_(region)
date created:
2002-09-02T16:03:45Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T01:48:24Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Pont_localisation.png","width":1200,"height":1000}
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