WThe Pontic Greeks are an ethnically Greek group who traditionally lived in the region of Pontus, on the shores of the Black Sea and in the Pontic Mountains of northeastern Anatolia. Many later migrated to other parts of Eastern Anatolia, to the former Russian province of Kars Oblast in the Transcaucasus, and to Georgia in various waves between the Ottoman conquest of the Empire of Trebizond in 1461 and the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829. Those from southern Russia, Ukraine, and Crimea are often referred to as "Northern Pontic [Greeks]", in contrast to those from "South Pontus", which strictly speaking is Pontus proper. Those from Georgia, northeastern Anatolia, and the former Russian Caucasus are in contemporary Greek academic circles often referred to as "Eastern Pontic [Greeks]" or as Caucasian Greeks, but also include the Turkic-speaking Urums.
WAntonis Antoniadis is a former Greek footballer. He scored 243 goals in a career which spanned 22 years. He started his career at 1964 playing for Aspida Xanthi before moving to Panathinaikos on 31 July 1968. Antoniadis scored his first official goal for Panathinaikos on 27 October 1968 in a 1–0 victory over Apollon Athens. When he was playing in Xanthi, he was a goalkeeper because of his height. His nickname is Ο Ψηλός, The Tall.
WJoannis Avramidis was a contemporary Greek-Austrian sculptor. He was born in Batumi, Soviet Union to a family of Pontic Greeks .
WBeshtasheni is a village near Tsalka in southern Georgia's Kvemo Kartli region. Almost all the population are Greeks. This Pontian Greeks are also known as Tsalka Urums.
WThe Caucasus Greeks, sometimes known as the Greeks of Trans-Caucasus and Russian Asia Minor, are the historically Greek-speaking peoples of the North Caucasus and Transcaucasia in what is now southwestern Russia, Georgia, and northeastern Turkey. These specifically include the Pontic Greeks, though they today span a much wider region including the Russian north Caucasus, and the former Russian Caucasus provinces of Batum Oblast' and Kars Oblast', now in north-eastern Turkey and Adjara in Georgia.
WConstanța, historically known as Tomis, is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Romania. It was founded around 600 BC. The city is located in the Northern Dobruja region of Romania, on the Black Sea coast. It is the capital of Constanța County and the largest city in the historical region of Dobruja.
WThe Folklore Museum of Katerini was set up by the Pieria Pontic Association, and is housed in a building owned by the Association in the centre of Katerini, Macedonia, Greece, near the Municipal Park. It opened in 1990, following efforts to collect folklore material still in the possession of refugee families from the Pontos who had settled in the Pieria region. The campaign had been carried out by a three-member committee under the supervision of Professors Dimitrios Pandermalis and Nora Skouteri.
WVenerable Elder and New Confessor Saint George (Karslidis) of Drama, January 1, 1901 – November 4, 1959, was a Greek Elder known for his gifts of spiritual discernment and clairvoyance.
WNikos Kapetanidis was a Greek journalist and newspaper publisher. He was one of the notable figures of Pontus region hanged by the Turkish nationalists of Mustafa Kemal.
WYevhen Hryhorovych Khacheridi is a Ukrainian footballer who plays for Dynamo Brest.
WMatthaios Kofidis was an Ottoman Greek businessman, historian and a politician, who was a member of the Ottoman Parliament. He was elected in three successive periods from 1908 to 1918. In 1921 he was among the notables of the Greek community of the Pontus region who were hanged by the Turkish nationalists of Mustafa Kemal.
WEuclid Kiriakovich Kyurdzidis, Euclid Gurdjiev is a Russian actor, best known for his role as Ruslan Shamayev in Voyna. He was born to ethnic Greek parents in Yessentuki, Stavropol Krai. He has two brothers and an older sister.
WThe Panagitsa Folklore Museum was created by the Cultural Society of Pontic Greek refugees of Akrita Panagitsa in a room in the Community Hall of the village. Panagitsa is a village at a distance of 10 kilometres from the junction between the Edessa-Florina National Road and the Arnissa road in Central Macedonia, Greece. Most items in the collection are from the area of Pontus in the Black Sea.
WDimitrios "Mitsos" Partsalidis (1905–1980) was a Greek communist politician.
WPhotios Kalpidis or Photios of Korytsa was the Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Korçë, Ottoman Empire, from 1902 to 1906. He was assassinated in 1906 by irregular bands due to his pro-Greek activity. Photios was proclaimed an ethnomartyr by the Church of Greece.
WIvan Ignatyevich Savvidi, is a Russian-Georgian businessman and politician of Caucasus Greek origin. Savvidis is one of Russia's wealthiest men and was a member of the Russian Parliament, closely linked to the President Vladimir Putin.
WGeorgios "Giourkas" Seitaridis is a Greek retired footballer who played as a right-sided full-back and occasionally as a central defender. He has last played in 2013 for Greek Superleague side Panathinaikos, having played previously at PAS Giannina, Porto, Dynamo Moscow and Atlético Madrid. He is a former member of the Greece national football team, for which he made a total of 72 international appearances, scoring one goal. He was part of their team which won Euro 2004, for which he was voted into the Team of the Tournament.
WTsalka, is a town and municipality center in southern Georgia's Kvemo Kartli region.
WMarkos Vafeiadis was a leading figure of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) during the Greek Resistance and the Greek Civil War.