Word: pontus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works...
...Such curiosa as the propaganda distributed at the Paris peace conference by the delegate from Pontus on the Euxine Sea, who requested the restoration of the kingdom of Mithridates the Great, destroyed by Julius Caesar in 47 B.C.; the rare official Italian inquiry into the Caporetto disaster; the unpublished memoirs of Haile Selassie...