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Pontus
[ pon-tuhs ]
noun
- an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province.
- Also ʴDz·ٴDz [] the ancient Greek personification of the sea.
Pontus
/ ˈɒԳə /
noun
- an ancient region of NE Asia Minor, on the Black Sea: became a kingdom in the 4th century bc ; at its height under Mithridates VI (about 115–63 bc ), when it controlled all Asia Minor; defeated by the Romans in the mid-1st century bc
Example Sentences
In the 4th Century BCE, the passage of Alexander the Great's army contributed to the creation of another Greek-speaking centre, to the South of Pontus, at Cappadocia.
In this work, by the Swedish choreographer Pontus Lidberg, rabbits are part of a nightmare, and an awfully Freudian one.
Oceanic crust is heavy stuff, geologically speaking, and that’s what Pontus was mostly made of.
Scientists have dubbed it the "Pontus plate" because at the time of its existence, it sat under an ocean known as the Pontus Ocean.
The relics of Pontus are not only located on northern Borneo, but also on Palawan, an island in the Western Philippines, and in the South China Sea.
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