• Look up Pontus or pontus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pontus or Pontos may refer to: Short Latin name for the Pontus Euxinus, the Greek name for...
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    Pontus (Ancient Greek: Πόντος Pontos) was a Hellenistic kingdom centered in the historical region of Pontus in modern-day Turkey, and ruled by the Mithridatic...
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    Kartvelian languages remain spoken to the east of Pontus, some are suspected to have been spoken in eastern Pontus during the Iron Age: the Tzans are usually...
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    deities. Pontus was Gaia's son and has no father; according to the Greek poet Hesiod, he was born without coupling, though according to Hyginus, Pontus is the...
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    of Pontus. Commonly known as Pontiaka, it is traditionally called Romeika by its native speakers. The earliest Greek colonies in the region of Pontus begin...
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    (Ancient Greek: Μιθριδάτης; 135–63 BC) was the ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus in northern Anatolia from 120 to 63 BC, and one of the Roman Republic's...
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    Bithynia and Pontus (Latin: Provincia Bithynia et Pontus, Ancient Greek Ancient Greek: Επαρχία Βιθυνίας και Πόντου, romanized: Eparkhía Bithynías kai...
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    a secret society, the Pontus Society, was founded in Merzifon whose main purpose was achieving an independent republic of Pontus. The movement gained significant...
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  • shown that "nowhere in the ancient literature mentioning Heraclides of Pontus is there a clear reference for his support for any kind of heliocentrical...
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  • Kingdom of Pontus. She was the wife of the Armenian King Tigranes the Great. She married Tigranes in 94 BC, cementing the alliance between Pontus and Armenia...
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