Republic of Pontus
The Republic of Pontus was a Pontian Greek state that existed in the north-eastern part of modern
Turkey from 1917 to 1919. [http://www.flaggen.com/flags/gr_pont.html Republic of Pontus (Greece, 1917-1919), Flags of the World] ] The Republic of Pontus was never officially proclaimed, but a central government of an "embryonic state" existed, though not occupying all the claimed areas. [The Times History of the War, The Times, London, England, 1920, p. 438] ThePontian Greeks rebelled against theOttoman Empire during theFirst World War , under the leadership of Chrysanthus, Metropolitan ofTrebizond . In 1917Greece and the Entente powers considered the creation of a Hellenic autonomous state in Pontus or on a Ponto-Armenian Federation. [A Short History of Modern Greece, 1821-1940, Edward Seymour Forster, 1941, p. 66.] In 1919 on the fringes of the Paris Peace Conference Chrysanthos proposed the establishment of a Republic of Pontus but neither Greece nor the other delegations supported it. [Dimitri Kitsikis, "Propagande et pressions en politique internationale, 1919-1920 (Paris, 1963) pp. 417-422.]Trebizond was the de facto capital of the republic and the emblem of the state was the one-headed eagle, symbol of the Komnenian dynasty of the
Empire of Trebizond . ]After the collapse of the Greek front in Asia Minor, during the Greco-Turkish War the plan of a fully independent state in the region collapsed.
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*Pontian Greek Genocide
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