Pontus

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Pontus or Pontos may refer to:

• Short Latin name for the Pontus Euxinus, the Greek name for the Black Sea (aka the Euxine sea)
• Pontus (mythology), a sea god in Greek mythology
• Pontus (region), on the southern coast of the Black Sea, in modern-day Turkey
• Kingdom of Pontus or Pontic Empire, a state founded in 281 BC
• Diocese of Pontus, a diocese of the later Roman Empire
• Republic of Pontus, a proposed Pontic Greek state discussed in 1919
• Pontus (given name), a Swedish masculine given name
• Pontos (film), a 2008 dramatic short film

See also

• Pontic Greeks, Pontian Greeks or Pontians, an ethnically Greek group who traditionally lived in the region of the Black Sea
• Bithynia and Pontus, a Roman province
• Pontic (disambiguation), the corresponding adjective