A 1901 postcard of Sinope, today's Turkish Sinop. Sinope is located in Black Sea. She was part of the Empire of Trapezous during the Byzantine period. In 1918 the town had about 12,000 Greek inhabitants
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Samsous, today's Turkish megalopolis of 750,000 with the name Samsun, was a thriving Greek city close to Trapezous, with regular passenger liners between the two cities. But by 1919 most Greeks had moved either to Asia Minor or to Armenia and Russia. This is how Georgia got a large Pontian population... It was here that Kemal Atatürk started his new Turkey in 1919.
Here you see the Greek Othodox Metropolis of the city in 1912.
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Another city on the Black Sea, Kerasous, in 1902
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