Sam Topalidis[1] Pontic Historian and Ethnologist (2024) What is Romeyka and How Did it Develop? From the 7th century BC, Greeks established colonies in Pontos, in north-east Anatolia […]
Observations by Foreign Visitors of the Soumela Monastery, Pontos
Soumela Monastery of Trabzon, The Greek Orthodox Monastery of the Virgin Mary, better known as Sumela Monastery, is one of the Black Sea’s highlights.
Sam Topalidis (Pontic historian) 2018 Introduction Trabzon is a town with over 300,000 people in northeast Turkey on the Black Sea coast (Figure 1). It was settled […]
