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The name Anatolia comes from the Greek Aνατολή (anatolē) meaning the "East" or more literally "sunrise.

TRAPEZOUNTA(trabson)Originally, it was founded as Trapezus (Τραπεζοῦς) by Greek traders from Miletus (traditionally in 756 BC).

.Pontus or Pontos (Greek: Πόντος, i.e. "sea") is a historical Greek designation for a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in modern-day northeastern Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region in antiquity by the Greeks who colonized the area, and derived from the Greek name of the Black Sea: Pontos Euxeinos ("Hospitable Sea"), or simply Pontos. Having originally no specific name, the region east of the river Halys was spoken of as the country en Pontôi, "on the [Euxeinos] Pontos", and hence acquired the name of Pontus, which is first found in Xenophon's Anabasis. The extent of the region varied through the ages, but generally it extended from the borders of Colchis (modern Georgia) until well into Paphlagonia in the west, with varying amounts of hinterland. Several states and provinces bearing the name of Pontus or variants thereof were established in the region in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine times.
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Under the subsequent Ottoman rule which began with the fall of Trebizond(1460), particularly starting from the 17th century, the region's Pontic Greeks were extensively Turkicized and Islamized through the devshirme system; though communities of Christian Pontic Greeks remained throughout the area until the early 20th century, preserving their own customs and dialect of Greek

The first intimations of Greek presence in the Black Sea area can be traced back to Greek mythology. It is the region where Jason and the Argonauts sailed to find the Golden Fleece. The myth was formally documented by Apollonius of Rhodes in his work, the Argonautica. Modern historians date the expedition of the Argo around 1200 BC, based on the description given by Apollonius.

The first recorded Greek colony, established on the northern shores of ancient Anatolia, was Sinop, circa 800 BC. The settlers of Sinop were merchants from the Ionian Greek city state of Miletus. After the colonization of the shores of the Black Sea, known till then to the Greek world as Pontos Axeinos (Inhospitable Sea), the name changed to Pontos Euxeinos (Hospitable Sea). In time, as the numbers of Greeks settling in the region grew significantly, more colonies were established along the whole Black Sea coastline of what is now Turkey, Bulgaria, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, and Romania.
Greek population in Anatolia and Asia Minor in blue color, 1911


Πάρθεν η Ρωμανία

Ναιλί εμάς και βάι εμάς οι Τούρκ την Πολ επαίραν,
επαίραν το βασιλοσκάμ κι ελάεν η Αφεντία.
Μοιρολογούν τα εκκλησιάς, κλαίγνε τα μοναστήρα,
κι ο Αι-Γιάννες ο Χρυσόστομον, κλαίει και δερνοκοπάται.

Μη κλαίς, μη κλαίς Αι Γιάννε μου και μη δερνοκοπάσαι,
η Ρωμανία πέρασεν, η Ρωμανία πάρθεν.
Η Ρωμανία κι αν πέρασεν, ανθεί και φέρει κι άλλο.

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