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 culture includes the traditional music, dance, architecture, clothing, artwork, and religious practices of the Pontic Greeks, also called...
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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 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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Horon (redirect from Tik (dance))
in a dancer. Associated category Pontic Greek folk dance Laz folk music Similar dances Dabke, Levantine folk dance Khigga, Assyrian folk dance Tamzara...
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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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Omal (category Pontic Greek dances)
Pontic Greek folk dances to be developed from the region of Pontos. In the Pontic language, omal means "regular" or "smooth." It is a relaxed dance and...
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arrangement of the dancers, for example, by age. Greek dances are performed also in diaspora Greek communities among international folk dance groups. Antistrophe...
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dances Turkish folklore Assyrian folk dance Kurdish dance Armenian dance Pontic Greek folk dance "TURKISH FOLK DANCES". ncturkishfestival. Archived from...
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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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Karsilamas (redirect from Suleiman Aga (dance))
(Turkish: karşılama; Greek: καρσιλαμάς) is a folk dance spread all over Northwest Turkey and carried to Greece by Anatolian Greek immigrants. The term...
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Greek traditional music (Greek: παραδοσιακή μουσική, paradosiaki mousiki, 'traditional music'; also δημοτικά τραγούδια, dimotika tragoudia, 'folk songs')...
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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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"round (dance)"; the verb oriti means "to speak, sound, sing" and previously meant "to celebrate". The Greek χορός (khorós) is cognate with Pontic Greek χορόν...
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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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This is a list of folk music traditions, with styles, dances, instruments and other related topics. The term folk music can not be easily defined in a...
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Letsina (category Pontic Greek dances)
Letsina (Pontic: Λετσίνα), also called Letsina Kars, is a Pontic Greek folk dance. Pontian refugees from Turkey brought the dance to Greece. The Letsina...
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dances. Names of many Greek dances may be found spelt either ending with -o or with -os. This is due to the fact that the word for "dance" in Greek is...
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Kemençe of the Black Sea (redirect from Pontic lyra)
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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Syrtos (category Pontic Greek dances)
dragging dances.[citation needed] An Dro Dabke Hora Horon Khigga Kochari Music of Greece Omal Sirtaki Tamzara Tsamiko Pontic Greek folk dance Modern Greek συρτός...
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Scythians (redirect from Scythian kingdom in the Pontic steppe)
"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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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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circle dances. Kochari is an Armenian folk dance, danced today by Armenians, Assyrians, Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Pontic Greeks and Turks. Dancers form a closed...
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Stefanos Korkolis. Until the 1930s the Greek discography was separated by two musical genres: the Greek folk music and the Elafró tragoudi (literally:...
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The music of Greece is as diverse and celebrated as its history. Greek music separates into two parts: Greek traditional music and Byzantine music. These...
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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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A lap dance (or contact dance) is a type of erotic dance performance offered in many strip clubs in which the dancer typically has body contact with a...
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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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Kemenche (category Articles containing Greek-language text)
Black Sea (Turkish: Karadeniz kemençesi), also known as Pontic kemenche or Pontic lyra (Greek: Ποντιακή λύρα), is a box-shaped lute (321.322 in the Hornbostel-Sachs...
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respective Greek dialects, such as Cretan and Pontic Greek. Because of their gradual Turkification, as well as the close association of Greece and Greeks with...
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