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  • 1Pontic — Pontic, from the Greek pontos , or sea , can refer to:* The Black Sea ** The Pontic colonies, on its northern shores ** Pontus, a region on its southern shores ** The Pontic Caspian steppe, steppelands stretching from north of the Black Sea as… …

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  • 2Pontic Mountains — Range Panoramic view of the Pontic Mountains in 2007 …

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  • 3Pontic Greeks — Infobox Ethnic group group = Pontic Greeks nowrap|Έλληνες του Πόντου (Ρωμιοί) Pontic Greek man population = c. 3,000,000 regions = Greece, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Turkey religions = Greek Orthodox Christianity, Sunni Islam langiages …

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  • 4Pontic Greek — language name=Pontic Greek nativename=Ποντιακά, Ρωμαίικα familycolor=Indo European states=Greece, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Germany, The Netherlands region=Southeastern Europe speakers=324,535 fam2=Greek fam3=Koine… …

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  • 5Pontic Greek genocide — During World War I and its aftermath (1914 1923), the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire instigated a violent campaign against the Greek population of Pontus and other regions of the Empire inhabited by Greeks. The campaign included… …

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  • 6Pontic-Caspian steppe — Ponto Caspian redirects here. See Oghuz languages for the Ponto Caspian languages. The steppe extends roughly from the Dniepr to the Ural or 30° to 55° east longitude, and from the Black Sea and the Caucasus in the south to the temperate forest… …

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  • 7Pontic Athens — or Pontic Athenæ was a city on the shore of the Black Sea mentioned by the ancient historian Arrian in his 2nd century Periplus Ponti Euxini . There is some debate over whether it was simply a local city with a temple to Athena as Arrian… …

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  • 8Pontic — Pon tic, a. [L. Ponticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? the sea, especially, the Black Sea.] Of or pertaining to the Pontus, Euxine, or Black Sea. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 9Pontic — [pän′tik] adj. [L Ponticus < Gr Pontikos < pontos, sea (esp. the Black Sea), orig., path: for IE base see PONS] 1. of Pontus 2. of the Black Sea …

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  • 10Members of the Delian League — The Delian League before the Peloponnesian War, in 431 BC. The members of the Delian League/Athenian Empire (ca. 479 404 BC) can be categorized into two groups: the allied states (symmachoi) reported in the stone tablets of the Athenian tribute… …

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