pontic in English

adjective
1
of or relating to ancient Pontus.
My father is a mixture of Smyrnaic and Pontic Greek and the Pontic Greeks were exterminated by the Turks.

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1. Bosporus, at its start, is a Hellenic Pontic autocracy located in the Crimea and Azov areas, Pontic Steppe region of the Eastern Europe subcontinent

2. Conclude:It is better to select one molar Pontic and at least two abutments for a successful posterior cantilevered fixed partial denture.

3. At the Battle of Chaeronea, Sulla inflicted severe casualties on Archelaus, who nevertheless retreated and continued to raid Greece with the Pontic fleet.

4. Secondly (4.8), a legend told by the Pontic Greeks featuring Scythes, the first king of the Scythians, as a child of Hercules and Echidna.

5. The Bulgars (also Bulghars, Bulgari, Bolgars, Bolghars, Bolgari, Proto-Bulgarians) were Turkic semi-nomadic warrior tribes that flourished in the Pontic–Caspian steppe and …

6. Prototi and Madius, Scythian kings in the Near Eastern period of their history, and their successors in the north Pontic steppes belonged to the same dynasty.

7. When in 331 BC Zopyrion, Alexander's viceroy in Thrace, "not wishing to sit idle", invaded Scythia and besieged Pontic Olbia, he suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the Scythians and lost his life.

8. Amphius Amphora amphoterus and Acarnan Ampyx Amyklai Amyclaeus Amyclas Amycus Amymone Amyntas Amyntor - Anchius Anchor - Antagoras Antalcidas - Antiphus antiphus and Ctimenus - Apollonia, Pontic Apollonia, Epirus - Archestratides Archestratus - argolic shields Argolid - Aristodicus

9. Amphius Amphora amphoterus and Acarnan Ampyx Amyklai Amyclaeus Amyclas Amycus Amymone Amyntas Amyntor - Anchius Anchor - Antagoras Antalcidas - Antiphus antiphus and Ctimenus - Apollonia, Pontic Apollonia, Epirus - Archestratides Archestratus - argolic shields Argolid - Aristodicus

10. R1b could be a Brachycephal tribe from central asia origin ( mongoloid Brachycephal ) and let that physical stock for exemple in transcaucasia ( where it became, armenid ) and later evolved physicaly in pontic steppe, with mixing with other population.