Pontus (region) (tur)

Pontus (region)

Pontus (region) ranks 3,309th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Santa Clara County, California, Boksburg, and Suceava. Memorable people born in Pontus (region) include Phorcys, Mithridates II of Pontus, and Pharnaces I of Pontus. Memorable people who died in Pontus (region) include Macrina the Younger, and Ariobarzanes of Pontus. Pontus (region) has been the birth place of many politicians and the death place of many religious figures, and politicians. Pontus (region) is located in Turkey.

Pontus or Pontos is a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in the modern-day eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region and its mountainous hinterland by the Greeks who colonized the area in the Archaic period and derived from the Greek name of the Black Sea: Εύξεινος Πόντος (Eúxinos Póntos), "Hospitable Sea", or simply Pontos as early as the Aeschylean Persians and Herodotus' Histories. Read more on Wikipedia