Pontus

[pon-tuhs]

noun

1. an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province.

2. Also Pontos the ancient Greek personification of the sea.

Pontus

/ ˈpɒntəs /

noun

1. an ancient region of NE Asia Minor, on the Black Sea: became a kingdom in the 4th century _bc ; at its height under Mithridates VI (about 115–63 _bc ), when it controlled all Asia Minor; defeated by the Romans in the mid-1st century _bc

Example Sentences

In the 4th Century BCE, the passage of Alexander the Great's army contributed to the creation of another Greek-speaking centre, to the South of Pontus, at Cappadocia.

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In this work, by the Swedish choreographer Pontus Lidberg, rabbits are part of a nightmare, and an awfully Freudian one.

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Oceanic crust is heavy stuff, geologically speaking, and that’s what Pontus was mostly made of.

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Scientists have dubbed it the "Pontus plate" because at the time of its existence, it sat under an ocean known as the Pontus Ocean.

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The relics of Pontus are not only located on northern Borneo, but also on Palawan, an island in the Western Philippines, and in the South China Sea.

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