Republic of Pontus

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The Republic of Pontus was a Pontian Greek state that existed in the north-eastern part of modern Turkey from 1917 to 1919.^{[citation needed]} The Pontian Greeks rebelled against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, under the leadership of Chrysanthus, Bishop of Trabizond.^{[citation needed]} In 1917, Greece and the Entente powers, began to work on the creation of a Hellenic autonomous state in Pontus or on a Ponto-Armenian Federation.

The Republic of Pontus was never officially proclaimed, but a central government of an embryo of state existed, though not occupying all the claimed areas.^{[citation needed]} Trabizond 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 Trabizond.^{[citation needed]}

After the collapse of the Greek front in Asia Minor, during the Greco-Turkish War and the final phase of the Pontian Greek Genocide, the Republic of Pontus and the plan of a fully independent state in the region collapsed.

[edit] See also

• Pontian Greek Genocide
• Greek refugees
• Democratic Republic of Armenia