Sinop travel
situated on a narrow peninsula at Turkey’s
northernmost point, Sinop is like a Black Sea
island with its good-natured people and streets
where time passes slowly.
Development of the Pontic Greek Dialect
Will Pontic Greek continue to be spoken? Bortone
(2009) believes Pontic Greek spoken in the
Pontos in Asia Minor today will probably
disappear. The challenge is to keep the Pontic
Greek dialect alive. The more recent work of
researchers like Emeritus Professor Peter
Mackridge, Assistant Professor Pietro Bortone,
Dr Theofanis Malkidis, Ömer Asan, Dr Anthi
Revithiadou and Dr Vassilios Spyropoulos have
increased our knowledge of the dialect.
Time For to Discover the Black Sea Highlands
Discover the Black Sea
highlands in September when time is suddenly
rent by a blanket of fog or the cry of a
vulture, and make the acquaintance of nature in
its most beautiful aspect.
Formation of the First Greek Settlements in the
Pontos
According to Liddell and Scott’s An Intermediate
Greek-English Lexicon, the word Pontos stands
for the sea, especially the open sea. In time,
the word Pontos became associated with the
north-eastern portion of Asia Minor that borders
the Black Sea (see Map 1).1 The Greeks first
called the Black Sea, Aξεινος πóντος
(inhospitable, unfriendly pontos), but later it
was called Εϋξεινος πóντος (hospitable pontos)
when they became aware of its wealth in the
lands around it ...
Crypto-Christians of the Trabzon Region
of Pontos
The crypto-Christians (also called cryphi,
klosti, Stavriotes, Kromledes) were Christian
Greeks who due to the Muslim persecution against
Christians publicly declared themselves Muslims.
However, in secret, they upheld their Greek
language, customs and Christian religious
practices...
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TRABZON MUSEUM
It is in Zeytinlik
Street, on Cumhuriyet avenue. The building which
has four floors including ground floor was built
in the late 19th century by Kostaki Teohplaktos,
one of the richest people in Trabzon, an owner of
a bank. It is known that most of the materials
used in the building, reflecting the European
architectural features of the term, were brought
from Italy.
Except ground floor, all the floors
of the building were ornamented with plaster and
pen.
The building, used as headquarters of
invadingforces during the years 1916-1918 of
Russian Invasion was bought by Xetnlizades. It was
nationalized in 1927, and was used as government
office between 1927 -1931 and as The Third General
Inspectorships betiveen 1931-37. After being used
as Vocational High School for girls, it was taken
over by The Ministry of Culture to be turned into
a museum in the same year.
.4fter long
restorations, it xvas opened as Trabzon Museum on
22nd of February, 2001. On his visit to Trabzon
between 15th and 17th of September 1924, Atatürk
stayed there with his wife Latife Hanım. In the
evening of 15th September, he made his speech
which is full of praise for Trabzon at the meal
given for his honor by Hüseyin Kazaz, the Mayor of
Trabzon at that time. The room in which Atatürk
stayed with his wife has been decorated and opened
to public visit.
The ground floor of the
building has been decorated as the section of
Archaeological and Ethnographic works. In the
Archaeological works section, the works of Bronze
era, Classic era, Roman and Byzantine era are
exhibited. In the Ethnographic works section, the
works of Ottoman era, Islamic era and some other
local works are exhibited. In this section the
most eye catching work is Hermes statue belonging
to BC 2nd century which was found in a dig. The
first floor is the mansion ivorks section and
decorated to reflect the mansion life.
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