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'''Pontic Greeks, Pontian Greeks, Pontians or Greeks of Pontus''' ({{lang-el|Πόντιοι, Ποντιακός Ελληνισμός or Έλληνες του Πόντου}}, {{lang-tr|Pontus Rumları}}) can refer to Greeks specifically from the area of Pontus in the region of the former Empire of Trebizond on the Black Sea coast of Eastern Turkey, or in other cases more generally all Greeks from the shores of the [[Black Sea]] or the Pontus. Greeks from Trabzon traditionally speak Pontic [[Greek language|Greek]]. The terms Pontic and Pontian can be used interchangeably.
'''Pontic Greeks, Pontian Greeks, Pontians or Greeks of Pontus''' ({{lang-el|Πόντιοι, Ποντιακός Ελληνισμός or Έλληνες του Πόντου}}, {{lang-tr|Pontus Rumları}}) can refer to Greeks specifically from the area of Pontus in the region of the former Empire of Trebizond on the Black Sea coast of Eastern Turkey, or in other cases more generally all Greeks from the shores of the [[Black Sea]] or the Pontus. Greeks from Trabzon traditionally speak Pontic [[Greek language|Greek]]. The terms Pontic and Pontian can be used interchangeably.
== Pontic Greeks Media ==
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File:Grave stele 03 pushkin.jpg|[[Funerary stele]] of two Greek warriors found on the Black Sea coast, [[Taman peninsula]], 4th century BC
File:Greek colonies of the Euxine Sea.svg|Greek colonies of the [[Euxine Sea]], 8th to 3rd century BC
File:Pontus Eagle Coin.jpg|Ancient Greek coin from [[Sinop, Turkey|Sinope]], coast depicting the head of a [[nymph]] and an [[Pontic eagle|eagle with raised wings]], 4th Century BC
File:Dioecesis Pontica 400 AD.png|Roman [[Diocese of Pontus]], 400 AD
File:Sinop-Castle.jpg|Sinop-Castle
File:Insel von Giresun.jpg|Giresun Island, used by Ancient Greek colonists as early as the 5th century BC
File:Hagia Anna.JPG|Saint Anne Church, one of the oldest churches in Trabzon
File:Aya Sofya, Trabzon (2673340959).jpg|Dome of Trabzon's Hagia Sophia
File:Kaçkar Mountains National Park 21.jpg|Zilkale in the Pontic Alps in [[Çamlıhemşin]], Rize Province
</gallery>
== Related pages ==
== Related pages ==
* [[Pontic Greek genocide]]
* [[Pontic Greek genocide]]