Pontus

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(Greek mythology) ancient personification of the sea

an ancient region of northern Asia Minor on the Black Sea

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Thus, it reached a dimension that can provide sufficient support for a pontic. Ribbond was cut on the cast model at an appropriate size with special scissors in the set (Figure 2).
(8.) It would need an Anglo-Saxon poem to render it adequately--"in deep pontic plain / it bears its barrage"--although there, of course, the alliteration would be regular.
Konstantinos will lend his voice to this musical encounter, while Matthaios will play the Pontic Lyra.
Among the many drivers of this coverage are the issues often now surrounding indoor air quality, mold, fungi, microbial-induced corrosion and the recent ASHRAE 188 risk management requirements covering Legionella and Pontic Fever outbreaks.
On the whole, this region is characterised by a plateau relief, the loess substratum and the presence of a bio-pedo-climate specific for Pontic steppe-silvosteppe areas.
The Canik Mountains in Turkey are the middle chain of the Pontic Mountains between the Kizil Irmak and Melet rivers.
It was of mixed ancestry (Turkoman, Persian, Azeri & Kurdish) including inter-marriages with members of Georgian and Pontic Greek nobility.
About a third of the men's ancestry led to the Pontic Steppe, a huge region of flat grassland extending from the Danube estuary to the Ural mountains.
The Bronze Age genomes are different again with about a third of their ancestry coming from ancient sources in the Pontic Steppe.
In this paper, we deal with the integration of loan nouns in two Modern Greek dialects, Heptanesian and Pontic, in differently conditioned situations of linguistic contact.
(I especially enjoyed the awesomely-named Pontic Firebird, which plays dance music from the western Pontic zone of the Black Sea.)