The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Pontus

Turkey


View Larger MapDescription of institution: A region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in modern-day eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region and its mountainous hinterland (rising to the Pontic Alps in the east) by the Greeks who colonized the area in the Archaic period and derived from the Greek name of the Black Sea Other Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus_(region) -