To reach their football club, you have to endure a hair-raising zig-zagging journey along the Zigana Pass in the Pontic Mountains.

I hoped we might go through Ardahan, yet another “lost” city that in the last hundred years or so has had vibrant communities of Armenians, Russians, Pontic Greeks, and Georgians, but which is ...

Decline, Transformation, and Legacy By the 3rd century BCE, the classical Scythians of the Pontic steppe began to fade from historical centrality.

The village of Santa experienced one of the most harrowing episodes in the persecution of the Pontic Greeks during the genocide.

Dramatic moments were filmed by eyewitnesses in the province of Gümüşhane in north-eastern Turkey earlier this week. On a road to Tirebolu in the Pontic Mountains, the slope above a road ...

Although it has long been recognized that the Yamnaya culture, originating in the Pontic-Caspian steppe, played a key role in the diffusion of Indo-European languages, new findings have provided a ...

Missing link in Indo-European languages' history found New insights into our linguistic roots via ancient DNA analysis Date: February 5, 2025 Source: University of Vienna Summary: Where lies the ...

As for the Pontic Greeks and the Armenians themselves, I'm afraid I've nothing to report; I couldn't find any to tell their stories. Though I'm told there are crypto-Armenians in the Highlands around ...

Situated in the heart of Turkey’s Pontic Mountains, the Panagia Sumela Monastery, often referred to as the “Monastery on the Mountain’s Edge,” is more than just an architectural marvel. For Georgians, ...