Have you ever heard of Pontus?It was a war-torn Greek core region in Northern Anatolia. Their descendants still call themselves Roman to this day.Its history started around 3000 years ago with the first trading ports until its fall during the Greek genocide when the Turks and Laz people killed them.
Yes, Turks tried to genocide them just like Turks did with literally every other single ethnicity they've ever encountered ever.
>>221860019they are famous for sending pyjama warriors against Roman Legions and Carthagian Elephants
>>221860019Also give them an ethnostate in Constantinople.
>>221860019Yeah they were the laziest dlc ever created by creative assembly
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>>221860019I knew about it because of Kingdom of Pontus
>>221860019Yes
>>221860175How much do Georgians claim descendance from Byzantium? Do you view it as your origin story of some sort?
>>221860636He's burning in hell now.
>>221860752He is in heaven with other Turkish heros who cleansed the Black Sea region from Kaffir menace
>>221860019Ive seen the g25 studies, theyre still basically 100% greek. Impressive
>>221860716Not much as an origin story, that role is taken by Colchis and Diauechi->Iberia. But Modern day Georgia is more or less a Roman/Byzanitne product. Colchis/Lazica was practically always part of the Hellenistic world and later became integral part of the Roman Empire. And Iberia also got Romanized heavily and after the Persians abolished the ancient monarchy, followed by Arab invasions, the new kingdom of Iberia in medieval period started off from the parts of Georgia that were integrated in the Byzantium. As a result, Church was Byzantine, Traditions were Byzantine, Monarchs bore many of the Byzantine courtly titles, later Imperial titles when they got involved in the Third Rome autism, fall of Constantinople was considered a national disaster that was compared to the darkening of the sun.But I wouldnt say that many (at least at this point) consider Byzantium to be a origin story per se. I'd place us between Greeks and Bulgarians on that spectrum:
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>>221860833>greekmore like georgian
>>221860019Earlier in the afternoon I was reading wiki's article about the proposed republic of pontus kekToo bad it's not even under Armenian control like what Venizelos initially wanted because it was too far from mainland GreeceI've read that over there you can find some of the most fanatic Turks for some reason
I am Hellenic.
>>221860833literally any turk is more greek than them, they're georgians lol
