Who are the Pontic Greeks?

[poiuytrewq0987]

Who do you believe them to be? Personally I believe they are descendants of Greek colonizers who came to Anatolia.

[Linet]

Oh come on....its self obvious...isnt it?

[poiuytrewq0987]

Oh come on....its self obvious...isnt it?

Of course it is. But the unscrupulous others like to call Pontic Greeks "Turks" or some other dumb names. Thread exists to prove them wrong.

[Queen B]

But the unscrupulous others like to call Pontic Greeks "Turks" or some other dumb names.

There are stupid people everywhere, let them be

[Linet]

Pontic Greeks are what their name indicates.... Greeks...
I dont say that there weren't other nations at the Pontus area but thats a totally different story. Pontic Greeks had their own cities and areas and also their beautifull and unique Greek-pontic dialect that even today is closer to the ancient Greek language.

[Onur]

Pontic Greeks are mix of different peoples like Georgians, local Laz people, Turks, Greeks and christian Tatar Turks from northern Blacksea.

Btw, i have to say that the most mingled population of Anatolia was the rural people around Blacksea. So, intermarrying among muslim and christians was so common among them unlike the other parts of Turkey. Thats why, the culture, clothing of today`s muslim Blacksea people are exactly same as the so-called Pontic Greeks. I mean, you could spot differences between a Greek and a Turk from Istanbul but you couldn't do that for the Turks and Greeks of Blacksea during Ottoman era.

Before the population exchange of 1923, christians was using a language called Romaika, an amalgam of Turkish and Byzantine Greek with some minor Georgian vocabulary. It was mostly foreign to Istanbul/Izmir Greek and completely alien to today`s modern Greek language. Unfortunately this unique language of blacksea christians has been regarded as ottomanism/turkism in modern Greece and deliberately erased, forgotten after they gone to Greece but today there are few people in Turkey who can still speak this language.

[Linet]

Oh Onur!!! Welcome ... it would be strange if you didnt come (like always) to claim for one more time that Greeks are a mix of every nation on earth (the best is that you dont even care about what or who we are talking about)...
Bravo! Keep it up... dont lose faith and one day you may convince someone!

[Su]

HELL, I missvoted, can a mod delete it?!

[Onur]

Bravo! Keep it up... dont lose faith and one day you may convince someone!

Brunette, it`s not about convincing someone for something, it`s about the truth. Are you trying to tell me that these people are not mixed?;

These are blacksea people in Turkey in their traditional clothing;
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These are blacksea people in Greece(Pontus people as they call);
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As you can see in the videos above, their clothing in both women and men are quite same even after their separation at 1924 population exchange. Turkish ones calls their dance as "Horon" which derived from Greek word but their famous instrument named with Turkish originated word "Kemence". Greek pontus ones says "Kemence" too.

Imho, they didn't give a fck about politics nor religion and they happily lived together in the green plateaus and mountains for 900+ years then politics was able to poison them in the end at 1920s and Christian ones gone to Greece at 1924. Normally, you could never separate these people from each other but they got separated in the end by force.

[poiuytrewq0987]

Brunette, it`s not about convincing someone for something, it`s about the truth. Are you trying to tell me that these people are not mixed?;

As you can see in the videos above, their clothing in both women and men are quite same even after their separation at 1924 population exchange. Turkish ones calls their dance as "Horon" which derived from Greek word but their famous instrument named with Turkish originated word "Kemence". Greek pontus ones says "Kemence" too.

IMHO, they didn't give a f.ck about politics nor religion and they happily lived together in the green plateaus and mountains for 900+ years then politics was able to poison them in the end at 1920s and Christian ones gone to Greece at 1924. Normally, you can never separate these people from each other but they got separated in the end by force.

If I remember my history correctly, Turks came by force and forced Trebizond Greeks to submit to Turkish rule or be exterminated. Turkish customs = Greek customs and traditions. up