A CNN Travel article celebrating the Panagia Sumela Monastery in Turkey has sparked outrage among Pontic Greek communities ...
Founded in the 4th century, Sümela is a gravity-defying marvel, hanging nearly 1,000 feet over a wooded valley in Turkey, ...
The horse has moulded empires, wars and human affairs profoundly ...
In this setting, Marios Vergiotis from Veria, his mother Pontia, and the Georgian cook Tamaz Kebatze opened Kartlis Guli, ...
above a wooded river valley in the Pontic Alps. Every day, thousands of visitors — some of them religious pilgrims but most drawn by the splendor of the early Christian frescoes and architecture ...
They were drawn to the remote area by a vision during which the Virgin Mary told them about an icon painted by Luke the Apostle hidden somewhere in the Pontic Alps. The monks eventually discovered ...
The German cultural scientist Ulrich Raulff has written that horses have as many meanings as bones. In the archaeologist ...
namely the Pontic Greeks and Armenians. In the twentieth century, Ottoman Turkey largely exterminated these peoples through a genocide.” Yet, the books refer “to ‘unfounded claims’ of ...
Romeyka, an endangered dialect of Greek spoken in the region of Trabzon and Pontus in northern Turkey, may get a new lease of ...