Pontus (region)

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, Pharnaces I of Pontus, and Mithridates II of Pontus. Memorable people who died in Pontus (region) include Ariobarzanes of Pontus, and Macrina the Younger. Pontus (region) has been the birth place of many politicians and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. Pontus (region) is located in Türkiye.

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, 'Hospitable Sea', or simply Pontos as early as the Aeschylean Persians and Herodotus' Histories. Read more on Wikipedia