The area remained a stronghold of Pontic Greeks throughout the Middle Ages and Ottoman Empire, until the advent of modern Turkey after World War One. Relics of the Middle Ages are among the city ...

One suggests that it first appeared in Mesopotamia around 4000 B.C. and then spread to Europe. Another theory suggests it was ...

Pontic Greeks, Roma, Somalis, Albanians, Afghans and ethnic Chinese. The Home Office justified the decision, stating that it was recognized that it was necessary to discriminate on the grounds of ...

The newcomers brought ancestry from nomadic groups originating on the Pontic Steppe, a grassland region extending from Ukraine to Kazakhstan. These nomads moved west during the Neolithic ...

Yannis Boutaris, former Thessaloniki mayor and iconic Greek winemaker, died at 82; remembered for his progressive stance and ...

With the time traveling ability of archaeogenetic studies, it has become possible to shed light onto the dynamic past of ...

More than a thousand years later, however, a different line of horses became domesticated in the Pontic-Caspian steppes of ...

Amongits most riveting historic sites is the Sumela Monastery, one of the world’s oldest, built right into a cliff in the Pontic Mountains, overlooking the Altındere Valley. Pilgrims have been ...

Turkey’s Olympos Beydagları National Park is home to the burning rocks of Yanartaş, where flames created by methane emissions ...

one associated with Near Eastern farmers and another with pastoralists from the Pontic steppe10-12. In addition, there seems to have been ongoing natural selection favouring lighter skin pigmentation ...

Another theory suggests it was developed around the Pontic coast of northern Turkey around 3800 B.C. The third major theory argues that the wheel was invented in the Carpathian Mountains between ...