People of Pontus

 surmena 1908

Surmena 1908. Photo captioned: "10 July? 1908. The Constitution in Turkey." Possibly a celebration of the Young Turk Revolution of July 1908.

Manousidis themistoklis 1000

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.

trabzon girls school 1921

 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     

trebizond girls school

Greek students from the Trebizond Girls' School. Standing 2nd left: Valentini Theophylaktou. Colourised photo. 

Employees of a bank in Pontus (circa 1915)

fostiropoulos bank emplyees 1000

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.

trabzon ladies

Greek ladies and children. Trabzon, early 20th century. Athena Fyllizi-Kartasi, Lefkothea Theofylaktou, Julia Theofylaktou, Sophia-Velissaridis Kallivazi. Colourised by PontosWorld. Source
 Trapezus excursion

Wealthy Greeks embarking on an excursion. Trebizond c.1900.

kakoulidis daughters

  Sseated: Sophia Tsouliadou, Evanthea Neofytou, Froso Velissaridou. Standing: Artemisia Makridou, Evdokia Michailidou, Sevasti Thomaidou and Cornelia Kalpaxidou). Source 

samsun greeks dress kms 1000

Residents of Samsun (Gr: Samsunta) in local dress. Source: Center of Asia Minor Studies, Greece.

crocquet trabzon fillizis

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.

trabzon greek family 1000

A Greek family of Trabzon. Date: unknown. Source

georgia greeks

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. 

trebizond women allen memomrial art museum

A group of Trebizond women, late 19th century. Collection of the Allen Memorial Art Collection

akritidis panayiotis fofo 1000

Panagiotis Akritidis (son of Alexandros) and Fofo Kontozi-Akritidou (Treb. 1894-Thess. 1982). Source

trebizond men nouri

Souvenir de Trebizonde. Editeur: O. Nouri.
 

bulancak female 1000

Female wearing the traditional Pontic attire of Bulancak (Gr: Πουλαντζάκη). Source

marmanis 1900

Yiannis Marmanis and Eleni Theofylaktou-Marmanis, Trabzon 1900. Source:

kazantzidou surmene 1000

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. 

holidou pousoulidou kromni

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.

Economidis brothers frontistirion 1000

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.

sinope gymnastics

 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.

frontistirion gymnastics

Young men at the Trebizond Frontistirion (Preparatory School) during a martial arts class. c.1910-1911. 

amisos school 1000

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

    

macka 1950

 Matzouka (Maçka), Trabzon, 1950's Source

giresun 1910

Pontic Greek family in Kerasus (today Giresun), 1910. Colourised by PontosWorld.  Source

 theofylaktos family geneva

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.

kakoulidis family

Konstantinos Kakoulidis and his nieces and nephews. 

halva maden

Greeks of Halva Maden, Bayburt region. c.1904.

newlyweds 1911 akoglou

Newlyweds, 1911. Source: X. Akoglou. From the Life of Pontus: Folklore of Kotyora. Athens 1939.

trebizond young greek girl

Young Greek girl, Trebizond. Date unknown. Colourised by PontosWorld.

macrides family

The Macridis family with parents Christopher and Artemisia, daughter Penelope, older son George and younger son Panagiotis. Colourised. Source

greek women colourised

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women pontus colourised

pontos girls col

 Colourised photo.

 pontic couple 1000

Male in western dress, female in traditional Pontic attire. Date/location unknown.

pontic couple a1000

Pontic male and female in traditional attire. Date/location unknown.

vafeiadis terra pontus 1000

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

samsun family bw

Greek family from Samsun (Gr: Amisos). Source: Pinterest

spyridon ioannidis kars europeana

Family portrait of religious cleric Spyridon Ioannidis of Kars. Photo: Ερευνητικό Κέντρο Αθήνα (Research Center Athens). Source

trabzon girls school 1000

Students from a girls school in Trabzon with their teacher Ifigenia Dionisiadou, Trabzon 1917. Source: A. Theofylaktou archives.

marmanis Spyridon family 1000

The family of Spyridon Marmanis of Trabzon. Source: A. Theofylaktou archives.

kallithea 1950

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.

kiouptsidis family

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.

girls school kotyora akoglou

Students from a girls school in Ordu (Gr: Kotyora) with their teachers. Source: Xen. Akoglou. From the life of Pontus: Kotyora Folklore. Athens 1939.

ordu 1905

Group photo. Kotyora (Ordu), 1905.

papadopoulou

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

papadopoulou maria and children

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.

eleftheriadis couple 1892 ordu

Wedding photo of the Elftheriadis couple from Ünye (Gr: Oinoy), 1892. Photo: Odyseas Dasoulas. Epitropi Pontiakon Meleton, Greece. Source
 girls pontic attire color

girl pontos bw 1000

Girl from Pontos in traditional attire. Photo: Cacoulis brothers. Source: Ιστορική & Εθνολογική Εταιρεία της Ελλάδος. Source 

kerasunta foresia

Traditional female Pontic attire from Kerasunta (Giresun). Source

local dress pontos cacoulis

Male costumes from the wider Pontos region. From left: Caucasian, Georgian and Laz male. Photo: Cacoulis Brothers. Source

married couple trebizond pierre de grigord

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 et trebizonde 1000 bw

Paysan de Trebizond. Photographer unknown. Source

anatolia black sea 3 men 1000

À Trébizonde (Anatolie, Mer Noire) [At Trebizond. Anatolia, Black Sea]. Source
 nikolaidis pileidou couple 1000

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

Akritidis family jerusalem 1000

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

 engagement 1000

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.

wedding giresun 1000

A wedding procession on a street in #Giresun (Gr: Κερασούντα), early 20th century. Source: Argonaftae Komninoi Association, Greece.

sergiadi ardassa 1000

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

pouroutsoglou bros giresun 1000

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.

 pardava 1000

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

 pileidis achilleas avgi 1000

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.

 Tsiligkaridis family 1000

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. 

 iatropoulos shoe repair shop 1000

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

 ordu men akoglou p191

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.

 

 

 

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