Surmena 1908. Photo captioned: "10 July? 1908. The Constitution in Turkey." Possibly a celebration of the Young Turk Revolution of July 1908.
Pastry chef Themistoklis Manousidis (middle) with two of his employees displaying some of their wares (Trabzon 1908). Manousidis ran a patisserie business in Trabzon and produced exceptional quality sweets. Photo: Taki Klazidis.
The last graduates of the Trebizond (Trabzon) Girls' School with their Maths-Physics teacher, Phillipos Himonidis. 1921.Standing from left to right: Paraskevoula Mavridou, Stergia Hatzinota, Sofia Toumbouli, Georgia Hatzikakoulidiou, Anastasia Kakoulidou. Seated from left to right: Evdokia Papazof and Stali Tousmanof. Anna Theofylaktou Collection. Source
Greek students from the Trebizond Girls' School. Standing 2nd left: Valentini Theophylaktou. Colourised photo.
Employees of a bank in Pontus (circa 1915)
Workers from the bank of the Fostiropoulos brothers on an excursion. Date, unknown. The Fostiropoulos Brothers Bank was located in Trabzon and was founded by Georgos Fostiropoulos.
Greek ladies and children. Trabzon, early 20th century. Athena Fyllizi-Kartasi, Lefkothea Theofylaktou, Julia Theofylaktou, Sophia-Velissaridis Kallivazi. Colourised by PontosWorld. Source
Wealthy Greeks embarking on an excursion. Trebizond c.1900.
Sseated: Sophia Tsouliadou, Evanthea Neofytou, Froso Velissaridou. Standing: Artemisia Makridou, Evdokia Michailidou, Sevasti Thomaidou and Cornelia Kalpaxidou). Source
Residents of Samsun (Gr: Samsunta) in local dress. Source: Center of Asia Minor Studies, Greece.
People playing croquet. Trabzon, 1900. The photo was published in a Pontic journal in 1954 by Dimitris Fillizis who described the photo as follows: "The inhabitants of the capital of Pontus, while adhering to their ancestral traditions, did not exclude, as can be seen from the above photograph, the recreational activities of the West, too." Second from the left is Orpheus Kogkalidis, and second from the right is Anna Triantafyllidou-Kapagiannidou who was the wife of wealthy Greek banker Kostas Kapayiannids. The man furthest to the right is (Sergei) Serafimov. The photo was taken at Soğuksu.
A Greek family of Trabzon. Date: unknown. Source
Pontic Greeks of Georgia: The sons of Kostas Konstantinidis of Sourmena. Seated from left; Panagiotis, Savvas and John, standing from left: Jordan, Dimitris Anestis and Theodore. In Batumi, Georgia, early 20th century. Colourised photo. Source
Family photo, Halva Maden, Bayburt. c1904.
The football team of the Anatolia College Hellenic Athletic Club "Pontos." Merzifon, Turkey, early 20th century. The letter Π on the students' shirts is the Greek letter P for Pontos.
A group of Trebizond women, late 19th century. Collection of the Allen Memorial Art Collection.
Panagiotis Akritidis (son of Alexandros) and Fofo Kontozi-Akritidou (Treb. 1894-Thess. 1982). Source
Souvenir de Trebizonde. Editeur: O. Nouri.
Female wearing the traditional Pontic attire of Bulancak (Gr: Πουλαντζάκη). Source
Yiannis Marmanis and Eleni Theofylaktou-Marmanis, Trabzon 1900. Source:
Kiriaki Kazantzidou of Surmene, early 20th century. She is wearing a macrogoun (long fur overcoat), a spaler (item worn under the overcoat which covered the chest from the neck to the waist), and a fota (apron with wide stripes) over her zoupouna.
Vaso Holidou (left) and Eleni Pousoulidou (wife of I. Stefanidis) from Kromni (Krom) wearing the traditional costume (zoupouna). From a book titled Kromni by Georgios Firtinidis.
The Economidis brothers dressed in the school uniform of the Trebizond Frontistirion (Preparatory School). Trabzon 1910. Both boys are wearing caps and around the collar of their jackets appear the initials Φ.Τ (Frontistirion Trebizond) and the numbers 209 and 105. Source: Committee of Pontic Studies, Greece via the Europeana website.
Alexandros Nikolaidis, son of Iordanis, at the age of 6 in Batumi, Georgia where he was born. He died in Athens on the 3rd of February 1979. Photo: Committee of Pontian Studies, Greece.
Apostolos and Ourania Tsambertidis (Τσαμπερτίδης) in Constantinople around 1920-1921. Apostolos Tsambertidis was the son of Konstantinos Tsambertidis, a lecturer at the Trebizond Preparatory School (Frontistirion). Ourania Tsambertidis was the daughter of banker Iakovos Fostiropoulos. She finished her schooling at the Zappeion Girls' School in Constantinople. Photo: Sébah & Joaillier. Constantinople. [Pascal Sébah (1823-1886) was a photographer born in Istanbul from a Syriac father and an Armenian Catholic mother. Polycarpe Joaillier (1848-1904) was taught photography alongside Sébah and in 1885 they formed a partnership even though by that stage, Sébah was very ill. After their deaths, the business was passed on to family and then purchased and operated by others. The studio closed permanently in 1974 after a 117 year history in the city.] Source: Committee of Pontian Studies, Greece.
A gymnasium class in Sinope, c.1909-1910. The students are holding a staff (Gr: Kοντάρι) which is a piece of wood used in an ancient Hellenic martial art.
Young men at the Trebizond Frontistirion (Preparatory School) during a martial arts class. c.1910-1911.
Students from the 7th grade of the Greek school of Amisos (Samsun), 1919-1920 with their teacher.
Source: Konstantinidis, Panos. The History of an exiled Pontian. Scaravaios 1994. Photo
Matzouka (Maçka), Trabzon, 1950's Source
Pontic Greek family in Kerasus (today Giresun), 1910. Colourised by PontosWorld. Source
Konstantinos Theofylaktos (middle) with his wife Eleni and their son Adam (right) along with their niece Athena and nephew. Geneva, c. early 20th centuey. Source.
Konstantinos Kakoulidis and his nieces and nephews.
Greeks of Halva Maden, Bayburt region. c.1904.
The family of Alexandros Akritidis (1861-1921) of Trebizond (today Trabzon). Alexandros Akritidis is seated to the right and is holding his grand-daughter Valentini in his arms. Behind him stands his daughter Avgi and his son Theodoros. On the left, his wife Cleo is seated surrounded by her sons Giannis (left) and George (right). Behind her stands her son Panagiotis and his wife Fofo. Location: Trabzon, 1910. Photo: Committee of Pontian Studies, Greece.
Newlyweds, 1911. Source: X. Akoglou. From the Life of Pontus: Folklore of Kotyora. Athens 1939.
Jeune fille Grecque [Young Greek girl], Trebizond. Date unknown. Colourised by PontosWorld.
Jeune fille grecque, Trébizonde [Young Greek girl, Trebizond]. C. 1885-1895. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Pierre de Gigord collection of photographs of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey.
The Macridis family with parents Christopher and Artemisia, daughter Penelope, older son George and younger son Panagiotis. Colourised. Source
Colourised photo.
Male in western dress, female in traditional Pontic attire. Date/location unknown.
Pontic male and female in traditional attire. Date/location unknown.
Ioannis Vafiadis (seated) with his best man. Both men wearing local traditional attire with baggy breeches. Date/location unknown. Suorce
Three young ladies dressed in Pontic attire. Date/location: unknown. Source: kotsari.com
Lazaros and Maria Mavromati from Giresun (Gr: Kerasunta). Source
A woman from Livera (Gr: Λιβερά, today Yazlik) in traditional attire.
Anthoula Kazazina of Trabzon (Gr: Trapezunta) in traditional attire. Photo: Committee of Pontian Studies.
Greek family from Samsun (Gr: Amisos). Source: Pinterest
Family portrait of religious cleric Spyridon Ioannidis of Kars. Photo: Ερευνητικό Κέντρο Αθήνα (Research Center Athens). Source
Students from a girls school in Trabzon with their teacher Ifigenia Dionisiadou, Trabzon 1917. Source: A. Theofylaktou archives.
The family of Spyridon Marmanis of Trabzon. Source: A. Theofylaktou archives.
A group of Pontic Greek refugees in Kallithea, Greece around 1950 enjoying the sound of the Pontic lyra (kemence) in the tavern of Nikos Ermeidis. From left: Lefteris Sidiropoulos, Tassos Koursanidis Nasoufis (?), Giannis Mavropoulos on the lyra Giannis Kotsailidis, (?) (?) and Ilias Alvanidis. Photo: Committee of Pontian Studies.
Members of the the family of notable Georgos Kiouptsidis of Akdagmaden. Date, location unknown. After the exchange, members of the family settled in Kivotos and later in Grevena, Greece.
Students from a girls school in Ordu (Gr: Kotyora) with their teachers. Source: Xen. Akoglou. From the life of Pontus: Kotyora Folklore. Athens 1939.
Group photo. Kotyora (Ordu), 1905.
Sophia Papadopoulou (middle), daughter of Athanasios and Maria with her friends. (Trabzon 1895). Sophia was born in the Christou parish of Trabzon (Gr: Τραπεζούντα). After her marriage she lived in Russia. Photo: Committee of Pontic Studies, Athens via the Europeana website
Maria Papadopoulou, wife of Athanasios from the parish of Christou in Trabzon (Gr: Τραπεζούντα) in 1890 with her children Miltiadis and Xanthippe. Maria is seated dressed in traditional attire while her children are in western dress. Maria stayed in Trabzon after the exchange and later died there. MIltiadis died in Trabzon from tuberculosis while Xanthippe arrived in Kallithea, Greece and married Efstathios Alvanidis with whom she had three children; Olga, Ilias and Panayiotis. Xanthippe also had another daughter named Paraskevi Alvanidou-Dedousi. Photo: Committee of Pontic Studies, Greece via the Europeana website.
Wedding photo of the Elftheriadis couple from Ünye (Gr: Oinoy), 1892. Photo: Odyseas Dasoulas. Epitropi Pontiakon Meleton, Greece. Source
Girl from Pontos in traditional attire. Photo: Cacoulis brothers. Source: Ιστορική & Εθνολογική Εταιρεία της Ελλάδος. Source
Traditional female Pontic attire from Kerasunta (Giresun). Source
Male costumes from the wider Pontos region. From left: Caucasian, Georgian and Laz male. Photo: Cacoulis Brothers. Source
Paysan et Paysanne des environs de Trebizond, Mer Noire (Peasant man and peasant woman from the surroundings of Trebizond, Black Sea. Date: c. 1885-1895. The ethnicity of the married couple is not specified. Source
Paysan de Trebizond. Photographer unknown. Source
À Trébizonde (Anatolie, Mer Noire) [At Trebizond. Anatolia, Black Sea]. Source
Commemorative photo of the Iordanis Alexiou Nicolaidis (from the Manzanton district of Kromni) and Eugenia Dimitriou Pileidou (born in Argyroupoli, Pontus) at the time of their engagement. Theodosia, April 12, 1906. The marriage took place in September 1906 in Theodosia, Crimea. Source
The family of Georgos Akritidis of Trabzon in Jerusalem, 1900. Seated in the middle is Georgos Akritidis. To his right is his daughter-in-law Elisavet (Litta) who was the wife of his son Isaac. To his left is his sister-in-law Roudami who was the wife of his brother Konstantinos. Standing to his leftis his grand-daughter Avgi, the daughter of his son Alexandros. Source
An engagement photo. The lady is wearing a plethora of jewelry including a long necklace (Gr: Κοχλίδι, Kokhlithi) and a diamond cross. Photo: L. Kalpidou archives.
A wedding procession on a street in #Giresun (Gr: Κερασούντα), early 20th century. Source: Argonaftae Komninoi Association, Greece.
Thomas Sergiadis and family from Tsite in the Ardassa region of Pontus. Ardassa was located 20 km north-west of Gümüşhane (Argyroupolis). Ardassa was the name of a town and also a region. In Turkish it's known as Torul. Photo: terra-pontus.blogspot.com
The Pouroutsoglou brothers, Yiannis and Giorgos, from Eneet in the Kourok region of Giresun, c. 1910-1912. Note: The placename is possibly a misspelling of Aneat in the Kirik region (Gr: Ανεάτ του Κιρίκ). Source: kotsari.com via Pinterest.
Seated right is Efthimia Maroufidou, née Pistofidis. She was otherwise known simply as Parthava. She was bnrn in Santa (today Dumanli) in 1860. Standing is her daughter-in-Law Parthena Maroufidou, née Andreadis who was born in Santa in 1890. To the left is an unknown lady. They lived and passed away in Tsakva, Georgia. Photo: c.1912. According to one source, the lady seated left is Kyriaki Kaisidou, née Pouneridis and the photo was taken around 1923-1925. Source: santeos.blogspot.com
Wedding photo of Achilleas Pileidis, son of Georgos and Avgi Akritidou, daughter of Alexandros. Batumi, Georgia, January 11, 1914.
Source: Committee of Pontian Studies, Greece.
Elizabeth Tsiligkaridis (seated), wife of Stylianos Tsiligkaridis from the village Tivit in Kars. She's holding her grandson Giorgos in her arms. To the left is Nikolaos Tsiligkaridis and to the right is his sister Elizabeth (Liza). All three are the children of Michail Tsiligkaridis and Panaila, residents of the village Pygi in Kilkis, Greece. The photo was taken at Nea Kavala where the family was relocated under a national order due to the civil war in Greece. Photo: Nea Kavala, 1949. Source: Committee of Pontian Studies.
Shoe Repair Shop Gr. S. Iatropoulos [Τακουνοποιείο Γρη. Σ. Ιατρόπουλου]. Trabzon 1917. Ilias Alvanidis (right), son of Efstathios and Xanthippe, at the age of approximately 15 years. He was born in Trabzon (Gr: Τραπεζούντα) in 1902 and died in Nea Smyrni, Greece in 1979. He was trained at the shoe repair shop of Gregory. S. Iatropoulos in Trabzon. Photo: Committee of Pontic Studies, Greece via the Europeana website
Residents of Ordu (Gr: Kotyora) serving in the Ottoman army. Date: unknown. Source: X. Akoglou. From the Life of Pontus: Folklore of Kotyora. Athens 1939, p.191.
À Trébizonde (Anatolie, Mer Noire). c.1885-1895. [At Trebizond. (Anatolia, Black Sea)]. Part of the Pierre de Gigord collection of photographs of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey.
Sophia Alvanidou, daughter of Georgios and wife of Ilias Foulidis. She was born in Kromni (today Krom/Kurum) in the Argyroupolis (Gümüşhane) province of Pontus and lived her early years in Trabzon. She married Ilias Foulidis and then went to Batumi, Georgia. From there they were exiled to Kazakhstan. They arrived in Greece after 1990. Photo: Cacoulis Brothers, Trebizond, 1917. Source: Committee of Pontian Studies.
Christoforos Georgiadis, son of Michail and Eleni (b. Hopsa 1881 - d. Kallithea 1935). He worked in Batumi, Georgia before leaving Georgia and arriving in Kallithea, Greece as a refugee. Hopsa, today Kopuz, is a village located in the historic Chaldia region, today part of the province of Gümüşhane (Gr: Argyroupoli). Photo: Batumi, 1910. Source: Committee of Pontian Studies.
Giannis Papadopoulos and Serafim Papadopoulos. Giannis was born in 1887 and died in Hakaksa (Χάκαξα), Surmene* in 1922. Photo: Simferopol, 1910. (Please note: As far as we know, Hakaksa is located in the Gumushane province of Pontus, not Surmene. However, Surmene was noted in the caption of the source photo). Source: Committee of Pontian Studies.
Young girl from Trabzon wearing a traditional costume. Photograph: Cacoulis Brothers, 1890's. Source: National Historical Museum, Greece.
Themistoklis Salapasidis, son of Charalampos, before he became a priest. Sochi, Russia 1900. Source: Committee of Pontian Studies, Greece.
Xanthippi Papadopoulos-Alvanidou, wife of Efstathios Alvanidis with her children Panayiotis and Paraskevi. The family arrived in Greece from Trabzon and settled in Kallithea, a district of Athens. Paraskevi was born in Kalithea in 1924. Photo: Kallthiea, 1937. Source: Committee of Pontian Studies.
Greek women, Trebizond 1904. Source: efxinospontos.org
Sophia Kostoulidou at the age of 12 with her fiancé, Stavros Lazaridis. Trabzon, 1898. Source: Committee of Pontian Studies, Greece.
A grandmother with her two grandchildren, Trabzon early 20th century. The children are wearing tsolia outfits including shoes with pompoms and are holding toy guns possibly influenced by the Greek Revolution of 1821. Photo: Archontoula Diamantopoulos collection. Source: pontiaka2.blogspot.com