Κοινότητα Αναγνωστών Βιβλίων - readers.gr

Sam Topalidis has written this well-referenced book in order to spread knowledge on Pontic Greeks, i.e. Greeks from Pontos (north-east corner of Anatolia adjacent the Black Sea) to English readers. To date, most of the information about this unique group has been written in Greek. The book is divided into sections covering Pontic history, Pontic society/culture, Pontic Greek family histories and Pontic musical instruments. The section on Pontic history covers chapters on when the Greeks colonised Pontos, the history of the largest towns of Trabzon and Samsun, the Theo...

"In telling her mother's epic story of survival and ultimate triumph in America, Thea Halo has written an important book about a largely unknown history: the genocide of the Pontic Greeks at the hands of the Turkish government in the years following World War I. Halo's deeply moving portrait of her mother reverberates with large moral issues that affect us all." (Peter Balakian, author of "Black Dog of Fate")

If one takes an honest, even a somewhat hon-est, look at the Eastern Medterranean, and especially at the region which historically took the name of Asia Minor and Anatolia, one immediately gets the feeling that in this part of the world, history stopped some centuries ago. Here, that historical process -the great movement of peoples, which in Europe in the 19th and early 20th century led to the end of the empires, the end of the ancien regime, and to the creation of the contemporary nation-states -did not evolve naturally. Here, the demand of history and of the national bou...

Το βιβλίο παρουσιάζει την ιστορία και την κοινωνία της ευρύτερης περιοχής της Σαμψούντας, από τα τέλη του 18ου αιώνα μέχρι το 1924.