Pontos: Sing for Trebizond

The song is ΕΚΑΕΝΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΤΣΑΜΠΑΣΙΝ - Ekaenkai to tsabasin (Tsabasin Burnt down) from the Guardians of Hellenism VOL.4, Pontos & Cappadocia. It carries well the power of loss, and the love of land felt by Pontians.

Pontos (Πόντος), the land below the Black Sea that was colonized by Ancient Greeks, had a rich Ancient and Christian history, now suddenly in danger of being forgotten after the Turks expelled the Pontians.

The Empire of Trebizond was the last Christian land in Anatolia to resist the Turks.

The lyrics for the song Tsabasin burnt down:

Xenophon Akoglous, in his 'Folklore of Kotyora', informs us that the song was written in 1913 on the event of the great fire which destroyed Tsabasi, a lovely resort built at an altitude of 2,000 meters, 45 km from Kotyora.

Singer: Sophia Sinopoulou

Tsabasin burnt down, not even bare walls left,
the young men of Ordou rushed to save it.
A great fire in Tsabasin, not a house left standing.
Young and old, poor and rich, all sat weeping.
The slopes were smoking, the springs ran dry,
Ashes heaped high, great houses destroyed.
The lambs and sheep, the glens, the slopes,
The springs and wells, all are to be pitied.
The poor birds are weeping, the lovely fir trees are weeping.
Tsabasin burnt down, nothing's left standing, my bird,
Hills and valleyes will no more grow grass.
It's burnt and gone, the country-side of Ordou,
And nothing's left there save only ashes.

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[YILDIRANTURK]

"We are not the same people but we have very much in common. Am a Turk from Trabzon and although I do not understand greek but I love greek music from the eastern Black Sea. I wish we could once again live together in peace with each other ..."

[Rhomios]

Yeah, stupid, Turks with open, blue eyes and brown hair... very funny. The Hetiths settled at the Aegean Coast of Asia Minor, the Pontos was unsettled until the Greeks arrived 3000 years ago. Further, the Greeks define themselves more over their culture and less from ethnical identity. Look in the Mirror and compare yourself to a Uigur, then to a Greek...be honest to yourself, learn your history and where your roots are... there is almost no one with ethnical turkish origin in Pontos...

[illidan1371]

pontos was and is a persian satrapie.

[schattenfaust]

@slida65 yeah sure alexander the macedon will come back and greece is going to build Space empire yes yes.

Ahh racist people believes everything their puppetmasters says.

[gtii61]

proud to be Turk.

Tonya/Trabzon

Allahuekber

[slida65]

Soon the time is near. Its all our again.

[MrOdissey4]

fuking Turkey

[pokerulus]

Fuking Trabzon people i hate them .Trabzon people are Pontos grandchild i would like to kill them