Gallery 74--of Pontos, Summer 2008

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The city was founded as a Greek colony from the city of Miletus in the 7th century BC (Xenophon,

Diogenes the Cynic, he was born in Sinopi in 412 or 404 BCE and died in 323 BCE, at Corinth. Diogenes was the only man to publicly mock Alexander the Great and live.

While Diogenes was relaxing in the sunlight in the morning, Alexander, thrilled to meet the famous philosopher, asked if there was any favour he might do for him. Diogenes replied, "Yes: Stand out of my sunlight.". Alexander still declared, "If I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes.

In another account of the conversation, Alexander found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.

Strabo (Greek: Στράβων; 63 BC – AD 24) was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher.He was born in Amaseia, Pontus

Strabo is mostly famous for his 17-volume work Geographica, which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known to his era,,, Although the Geographica was rarely utilized in its contemporary antiquity, a multitude of copies are found throughout the Byzantine Empire.

The name Pontos was applied to the coastal region in antiquity by the Greeks who colonized the area, and derived from the Greek name of the Black Sea: Pontos Euxeinos ("Hospitable Sea"), or simply Pontos.

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Trapezounta

As in Cyprus, Pontus's isolation assisted in the retention of many linguistic elements of Greek, long lost by the rest of Hellenism. The Pontic Greek dialect is arguably one of the most archaic forms of our language still spoken today. Many Pontic speakers today live in Turkey and are Muslims, whilst the majority live in Greece.

Pontic folklore is also archaic. The Pyrrihios (or war dance), was a part of Hellenic culture at least 2,500 years ago, as evidenced by friezes from the 5th century BC. Pontic Greeks will often refer to this dance as Serra, whilst Pontic Muslims refer to it as Horon.

At(1914-1923) 353,000 Greeks of Pontus were reported to have been massacred at the hand of the Ottomans, the neo-Turks and finally the Kemalists. The event is collectively known as The Greek Genocide , and claimed more Greek lives in other parts of the Empire.

The fate of Pontus was made complete following negotiations at Lausanne and an Exchange of Populations between Greece and Turkey which resulted in the all Orthodox Pontic Greeks being uprooted to Greece

Pontic Muslims were allowed to remain. Today these Muslims continue to speak Romeika or Rum as they call it, a dialect which descends from the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire.

Church of st Eugenios Trapezounta

Saint Eugenios was the first Bishop of Trapezounta (Trebizond) who lived in the 3rd century. He is remembered each year on the 21st of January. Saint Eugenios was the protector of the city of Trebizond

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