What exactly do Pontic Greeks look like?

[Sikeliot]

We talk about them often on here with regards to genetics, but what do they look like? I've actually never seen anyone who I can be sure is fully Pontic Greek. I know people whose surnames end in -idis, -iadis, etc which are the Pontic endings to surnames, but what's not to say they are mixed?

Does anyone have pictures of them?

[Shah-Jehan]

Ask Pontios to post his pic

[Pontios]

Well, we usually have big eyebrows, dark eyes, mostly tall or medium height...

Here's a good example.

[Sikeliot]

Someone told me once Pontic Greeks are lighter than the average Greek, due to their proximity to the Caucasus and Russia. But I have to see it to believe it.

[Shah-Jehan]

Someone told me once Pontic Greeks are lighter than the average Greek, due to their proximity to the Caucasus and Russia. But I have to see it to believe it.

It's probably true considering how Turks living in the Pontus region are considerably light...They most likely descent from Pontic Greeks

[Pontios]

Someone told me once Pontic Greeks are lighter than the average Greek, due to their proximity to the Caucasus and Russia. But I have to see it to believe it.

I agree. Myself I am a lot lighter than most Greeks. Anyone who says that Pontians are darker skinned than other Greeks must not have seen many Pontians. But it also depends where a Pontian is from. After all, our land is no longer ours, and we are scattered in many parts of Europe and many went to Greece and the USSR. I would say the most Pontian of all Pontians are the ones from the USSR that today live in Russia and they are pretty light.

[Sikeliot]

I agree. Myself I am a lot lighter than most Greeks. Anyone who says that Pontians are darker skinned than other Greeks must not have seen many Pontians. But it also depends where a Pontian is from. After all, our land is no longer ours, and we are scattered in many parts of Europe and many went to Greece and the USSR. I would say the most Pontian of all Pontians are the ones from the USSR that today live in Russia and they are pretty light.

So basically the "Azov Greeks" as Eurogenes calls them

If so, I take back saying Pontic Greeks are Hellenized Armenians. You guys do seem to have more Caucasus affinity than mainland Greeks, but also more Northern European than Aegean islanders and even Sicilians.

[Pontios]

So basically the "Azov Greeks" as Eurogenes calls them

If so, I take back saying Pontic Greeks are Hellenized Armenians. You guys do seem to have more Caucasus affinity than mainland Greeks, but also more Northern European than Aegean islanders and even Sicilians.

Yes of course even culturally we are closer to the Caucasus.

For example, look at even the two different national costumes... They look pretty similar in my opinion...

This is a Pontian costume...





And this is a costume from the Caucasus.



Furthermore, for things like the "Kaman" for the knife, as it says in the first picture, in the Caucasus (North specifically), they use the same word, "Kama."

So without a doubt Pontians are closer to the nations of the Caucasus than to mainland Greeks.

[Sikeliot]

Pontic Greeks score more Northern European than Sicilians, southern Italians, Aegean islanders but less than mainland Greeks. Why do you think this is?

[Shah-Jehan]

Yes of course even culturally we are closer to the Caucasus.

For example, look at even the two different national costumes... They look pretty similar in my opinion...

This is a Pontian costume...





And this is a costume from the Caucasus.



Furthermore, for things like the "Kaman" for the knife, as it says in the first picture, in the Caucasus (North specifically), they use the same word, "Kama."

So without a doubt Pontians are closer to the nations of the Caucasus than to mainland Greeks.

No wonder you defend the rights of North Kavkazians