Directly or in spirit, the Black Sea people are descendants of the wild mountain tribes that Xenophon described 2400 years ago. To be sure, we are neither wild nor at all primitive today. But one can still sense how their independent and assertive spirir made generations of imperial chroniclers and would be dominators so wary of our manners.  we are an idiosyncratic a lot. The Balck Sea personality reflects a distinct culture that is far removed either the dour fatalism of the Anatolian interior or the easygoing style of the Mediterranean seacoast. Two aspect of the land may have shaped its traids. First, the topograhy. Inaccessible valleys among trackless mountains constitutes the setting that has traditionally defined Black Sea lifestyles. Like mountain people all over the world (one thinks specificially of the Scotsmen, the Basques), our inhabitants have a higly developed sense of clan and community loyalites. We are intense and proud people, quick to respond to any percieved attack on their territory, honor or freedom-if necessary, by taking the law into our own hands. The manufacture and use guns is a passion. The delimination of highland meadows among villages and clans has traditionally given rise to serious hostilities that sometimes last for generations. But the same feeling or territory and honor also gives rise to equally strong sense of hospitality. Any outsider who takes the trouble to visit these far-away valleys is automatically a guest and will be treated to the most cordial welcome... Wellcome our site!

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