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.
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.
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.
Newlyweds, 1911. Source: X. Akoglou. From the Life of Pontus: Folklore of Kotyora. Athens 1939.
Young Greek girl, Trebizond. Date unknown. Colourised by PontosWorld.
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
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.