#trebizon

[bookpaula]

Revisiting Trebizon

[theauthorpaula]

(via Malory Towers, St. Clare's, and Trebizon: Boarding School Fiction)

[elladastinkardiamou]

Pontic Greek Still Spoken by Thousands in Northern Turkey

Pontian Greeks may have been forced out of their homeland one hundred years ago, but their language still lives today, in communities near Turkey’s Black Sea coast.

From antiquity up until medieval times, the area of Trebizon, or Trabzon, on the Black Sea coast, lay at the heart of the Greek-speaking world.

The land of the legendary Amazon kingdom was colonized by the Greeks in the eighth and seventh centuries BC, and was immortalized in Greek mythology as the area from which Jason and his crew of fifty Argonauts began their journey across the Black Sea on his quest for the Golden Fleece.

Studies conducted by historians and linguists suggest that thousands of Muslim Pontians in today’s northeast Turkey speak a Greek dialect which is remarkably close to the extinct language of the earliest years of ancient Greece.

Most of these individuals live in a cluster of villages near the contemporary Turkish city of Trabzon. Linguists have found that their dialect, called “Romeyka,” a variety of Pontic Greek, has structural similarities to ancient Greek which are not observed in other forms of the language spoken today. Romeyka’s vocabulary also has parallels with the ancient language.

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anthony fineran (b 1981), trebizon tribeca, 2021

[42soul]

Ritual geometry by DmitryVlasov

[travelless]

Ritual geometry

[hundredacre]

Trebizon: memories of Wendy and being in first form.