PONTUS

Meaning of PONTUS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈpän-təs ]

geographical name

1. ancient country NE Asia Minor; a kingdom 4th century B.C. to 66 b.c., later a Roman province

2. or Pontus Euxinus — see Black Sea

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary. Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster. 2003

PONTUS — geographical name ancient country NE Asia Minor; a kingdom 4th century B.C. to 66 b.c. later a Roman province, see: …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PONTUS — Ancient district, northeastern Anatolia adjoining the Black Sea . An independent kingdom with its capital at Amasia, it was established …
Английский словарь Британика
PONTUS — /pon"teuhs/ , n. 1. an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PONTUS — ancient district in northeastern Anatolia adjoining the Black Sea. In the 1st century BC it briefly contested Rome's hegemony in …
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PONTUS — Pontus BrE AmE ˈpɒnt əs AmE \ ˈpɑːn t̬ -
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
PONTUS — Ancient district, northeastern Anatolia adjoining the Black Sea . An independent kingdom with its capital at Amasia, it was established …
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PONTUS — [Greek] Pontus is the personification of the sea and the son of Gaia and Aether. With Gaia he fathered Nereus, …
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PONTUS — a large district in the north of Asia Minor, extending along the coast of the Pontus Euxinus Sea (Pontus), from …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
PONTUS — the sea
Bible Names English vocab
PONTUS — Понт
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
PONTUS — гос-во Понт гос-во Понтийское царство
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PONTUS — гос-во Понт гос-во Понтийское царство
Англо-Русский географический словарь
PONTUS — Pronunciation: ' pän-t ə s Function: geographical name 1 ancient country NE Asia Minor; a kingdom 4th century B.C. to …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
PONTUS EUXINUS — I. geographical name see: Black Sea II. geographical name see: Pontus
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PONTUS EUXINUS — I. geographical name see Black Sea II. geographical name see Pontus 2
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BLACK SEA — or ancient Pontus Euxinus or Pontus geographical name sea between Europe & Asia connected with Aegean Sea through the Bosporus, …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
CHAERONEA — Ancient city, eastern Greece. Its ruins are located in western Boeotia southeast of Mount Orchomenus . Philip II of Macedon …
Английский словарь Британика
PONTIC — I. ˈpäntik adjective Etymology: Latin ponticus, from Greek pontikos, from Pontos the Black sea, Pontus (country in northeast Asia Minor) …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PONTIC — /pon"tik/ , adj. pertaining to the Pontus Euxinus or to Pontus. [ 1470-80; Pontikós. See PONTUS, -IC ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
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MITHRADATES VI EUPATOR — died 63 BC, Panticapaeum [now in Ukraine] byname Mithradates The Great king of Pontus in northern Anatolia (12063 BC). Under …
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LUCULLUS, LUCIUS LICINIUS — born c. 117 BC died 58/56 Roman general who fought Mithradates VI Eupator of Pontus from 74 to 66 BC. …
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GREGORY THAUMATURGUS, SAINT — born c. 213, , Neocaesarea, Pontus Polemoniacus [now Niksar, Turkey] died c. 270, , Neocaesarea; feast day November 17 Greek …
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DEIOTARUS — died 40 BC tetrarch of the Tolistobogii (of western Galatia, now in western Turkey), later king of all Galatia, who, …
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BLACK SEA — Russian and Bulgarian Chernoye More, Ukrainian Chorne More, Turkish Karadeniz, Romanian Marea Neagra, large inland sea situated at the southeastern …
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ANATOLIA — Turkish Anadolu, also called Asia Minor, the peninsula of land that today constitutes the Asiatic portion of Turkey. Because of …
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CHOICE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a lifestyle choice (= a choice about how you live ) ▪ We can …
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GAIA — [Greek] Gaia, known as Earth or Mother Earth (the Greek common noun for "land" is ge or ga). She was …
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