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 ...

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 ...

1235–1270) to decline an offer of a marriage alliance with the Jochid Mongols in the Pontic steppes, better known as the ...

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 ...

During the following 5th and 4th millennium BC, Eneolithic cultures emerged in the river valleys of the North-Pontic steppe ...

Around 6,000 years ago, the wheel was invented. The invention was a pivotal moment in human history because it revolutionized everything from transportation and agriculture to craft industries like ...

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

The group was angry over his appearance at a remembrance event for the Pontic Greek victims of Turkish genocide. Boutaris ...

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 ...

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 ...