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    Pontic Greek music includes both the folk music traditionally performed by Pontic Greeks and modern Pontic music. Song and dance have a long history in...
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    The Pontic Greeks (Pontic: Ρωμαίοι, Ρωμιοί; Turkish: Pontus Rumları or Karadeniz Rumları; Greek: Πόντιοι, Ελληνοπόντιοι), also Pontian Greeks or simply...
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    Pontic Greek (Pontic: Ρωμαίικα, romanized: Rhomaiika, Greek: Ποντιακά, romanized: Pontiaka; Turkish: Rumca or Romeika) is a variety of Modern Greek indigenous...
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    Pontic Greek culture includes the traditional music, dance, architecture, clothing, artwork, and religious practices of the Pontic Greeks, also called...
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    The Pontic Greek genocide, or the Pontic genocide (Greek: Γενοκτονία των Ελλήνων του Πόντου), was the deliberate and systematic destruction of the indigenous...
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    Pontic Greek folk dances are a group of over ninety dances traditionally performed by Pontic Greeks (Pontic: Ρωμαίοι). Dance has been an integral part...
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    Pontic Greek cuisine consists of foods traditionally eaten by Pontic Greeks (Pontic: Ρωμαίοι, Ρωμιοί), a Greek-speaking ethnic minority that originates...
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  • →This is a list of Pontic Greeks (Pontic: Ρωμαίοι, Ρωμιοί, Romaioi; Greek: Πόντιοι, Pontioi ), i.e. Greeks from the region of Pontus, in modern northern...
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    Ottoman era, and are usually defined in modern Greek academic circles as 'Eastern Pontic [Greeks]' (modern Greek - ανατολικοί Πόντιοι, modern Turkish 'doğu...
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  • Karadeniz kemençesi, Greek: Ποντιακή λύρα Pontiakí lýra or Pontic lyre, Laz: Çilili (ჭილილი), Armenian: քամանի Qamani, Pontic: lyra) is a Greek and Turkish traditional...
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    traditions of ancient Greece, Byzantine music and the tradition of Caucasus. The prime instruments in Pontic music are the Pontic lyra (Kemenche), which...
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  • / cult / outsider music ('90s–'10s: Lost Bodies) Music of Cyprus Anatolian Greek music (including Pontic Greek music) Greek music in Israel Guardians...
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    Kochari (category Pontic Greek dances)
    "nomadic" simultaneously. In Pontic Greek, from the Greek "κότσι" (in Pontic Greek "κοτς") meaning "heel" (from Medieval Greek "κόττιον" meaning the same)...
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  • Ushering Traditional Greek Music Into the Present". Bandcamp Daily. 2020-08-03. Retrieved 2021-12-09. Liddle, V. (2013). The Pontic Greeks, from Pontus to...
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    Ukraine. The Pontic Greeks lived for thousands of years almost isolated from the Greek peninsula, retaining elements of the Ancient Greek language and...
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  • Chrysanthos Theodoridis (category Articles containing Greek-language text)
    Chrysanthos (Greek: Χρύσανθος Θεοδωρίδης; 22 December 1933 – 30 March 2005) was a Greek singer and songwriter. He was born in Oinoi, Kozani to a Pontic Greek family...
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    "Animal-style" type of art made mainly by Greek craftsmen in the Greek colonies. Among the Greek colonies, the Pontic Olbia served the demands of the Scythian...
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  • Omal (category Pontic Greek dances)
    Flat Horon) was one of the first Pontic Greek folk dances to be developed from the region of Pontos. In the Pontic language, omal means "regular" or...
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  • Enosi Pontion Pierias (category Pontic Greek culture)
    founded purely Pontic villages. To maintain the cultural peculiarities of the Pontus Greeks, in 1928 the Enosi Pontion Pierias (Greek Ένωση Ποντιών Πιερίας...
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    Cappadocians are an ethnic Greek community native to the geographical region of Cappadocia in central-eastern Anatolia. The Pontic Greeks (Greek: Πόντιοι, romanized:...
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  • of Pontic Greeks from the Pontic Alps region of northeast Anatolia, 29% are Turkish-speaking Greeks (Urums) from Tsalka in Georgia, and 1% are Greek speakers...
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    Horon (category Pontic Greek dances)
    require speed and agility in a dancer. Associated category Pontic Greek folk dance Laz folk music Similar dances Dabke, Levantine folk dance Khigga, Assyrian...
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    language. Among the Greek-speaking population, speakers of the distinctive Pontic dialect came to Greece from Asia Minor after the Greek genocide and constitute...
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  • Greek dance (choros; Greek: χορός, romanized: chorós) is an old tradition, being referred to by authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch and Lucian....
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    Matthaios Tsahouridis (category Pontic Greeks)
    Matthaios Tsahouridis (Greek: Ματθαίος Τσαχουρίδης; born 18 September 1978) is a Pontic Greek musician and composer who plays a range of stringed musical...
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  • Mariupolitan Greek is closely related to Pontic Greek and evolved from the dialect of Greek spoken in the Crimea, which was a part of the Pontic Empire of...
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    The Greek diaspora, also known as Omogenia (Greek: Ομογένεια, romanized: Omogéneia), are the communities of Greeks living outside of Greece and Cyprus...
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    official language of Greece is Greek, spoken by 99% of the population. In addition, a number of non-official, minority languages and some Greek dialects are spoken...
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    Serra (dance) (category Pontic Greek dances)
    The Serra (Pontic: Σέρρα) is a Pontic Greek war dance of ancient Greek origin, from the Pontus region of the Black Sea. Its name comes from the Serra...
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  • Greek Cypriots (Greek: Ελληνοκύπριοι, romanized: Ellinokýprioi, Turkish: Kıbrıs Rumları) are the ethnic Greek population of Cyprus, forming the island's...
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