This is the twentieth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe, Turkey, and the Near East to Georgia and Armenia—to spend time in worlds ...

In case of abuse, In the windswept plains of Eurasia, from the Black Sea to the Altai Mountains ... between the “Scythians proper” of the Pontic-Caspian steppe and related but distinct ...

The village of Santa experienced one of the most harrowing episodes in the persecution of the Pontic Greeks during the final and ... fled into the surrounding mountains. On September 21, 1921, a large ...

On a road to Tirebolu in the Pontic Mountains, the slope above a road suddenly broke away. The landslide buried the road, but fortunately no one was injured. The 60 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time ...

On a road to Tirebolu in the Pontic Mountains, the slope above a road suddenly broke away. The landslide buried the road, but fortunately no one was injured.

These linguistic pioneers were spread from the steppe grasslands along the lower Volga River to the northern foothills of the Caucasus Mountains ... history of the North Pontic Region from ...

Although it has long been recognized that the Yamnaya culture, originating in the Pontic-Caspian steppe ... the Eneolithic population that inhabited the Caucasus Mountains and the Lower Volga between ...

Earlier genetic studies had shown that the Yamnaya culture (3300-2600 BCE) of the Pontic-Caspian steppes ... the steppes between the North Caucasus Mountains and the lower Volga.

(Courtesy Awais Khan/Cornell University) Grown throughout Northern and Central Türkiye, these apples thrive in Amasya’s unique climate, near the Yes¸ilırmak River and Pontic Mountains. The special mix ...

Though I'm told there are crypto-Armenians in the Highlands around Lake Van and crypto-Greeks in the Pontic Mountains along the Black Sea's southern coast. Perhaps I'll go and look for them next.