Pontus or Pontos may refer to:
* Short Latin name for the
Pontus Euxinus, the Greek name for the Black Sea (aka the Euxine sea)
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Pontus (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Pontus (; grc-gre, Πόντος, Póntos, Sea) was an ancient, pre-Olympian sea-god, one of the Greek primordial deities. Pontus was Gaia's son and has no father; according to the Greek poet Hesiod, he was born ...
, a sea god in Greek mythology
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Pontus (region), on the southern coast of the Black Sea, in modern-day Turkey
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Kingdom of Pontus
Pontus ( grc-gre, Πόντος ) was a Hellenistic kingdom centered in the historical region of Pontus and ruled by the Mithridatic dynasty (of Persian origin), which possibly may have been directly related to Darius the Great of the Achaemeni ...
or Pontic Empire, a state founded in 281 BC
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Diocese of Pontus, a diocese of the later Roman Empire
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Republic of Pontus, a proposed Pontic Greek state discussed in 1919
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Pontus (given name), a Swedish masculine given name
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Pontos (film), a 2008 dramatic short film
See also
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Pontic Greeks, Pontian Greeks or Pontians, an ethnically Greek group who traditionally lived in the region of the Black Sea
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Bithynia and Pontus, a Roman province
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Pontic (disambiguation), the corresponding adjective
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