I like this :)


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19 May, the day of Pontian Genocide Commemoration, is coming soon... But our Pontian Assosiation here in Pretoria seems to have forgotten about it altogether ( Read more... )

Just another Pontian photo :)
These are brothers Aslanidis, Adonis and Maxim, who live in Vladikavkaz (Russia, Northern Caucasus).
Long live Pontos!

You can also have a look at my post on Pontian folk costumesПродолжаю выкладывать замечательные понтийские фотографии ( Read more... )

Here are some photos of Pontians (those of Trebizond and the Caucasus) in folk costumes. I am sorry for the poor quality of the photos: they are very old, so that even the PhotoShop does not really help much.

On the first photo you can see a group of Pontians in "rustic" costumes: pashlyk (headdress), black shirts, zipkas (special breeches for ( Read more... )

I could not help adding this one: here is a Pontic lyra, which is so dear to my heart (see my Info page) :)
It is strange, though, that the player is wearing a suit. Perhaps the photograph was taken in Constantinople: it seems that Constantinople Pontians did not really wear national costumes. But at least this lyradji has an astrakhan (sheepskin ( Read more... )

To continue discussion of the beautiful Pontic music (the music of my soul!): here is miteritsa dance, which was considered to be "high society music" in the old days, and was danced mostly by Pontic nobility (this is why the words of the song are in demotic Greek, and not in the Pontic dialect). One can see, however, that Pontic nobles were really ( Read more... )