Compiled by Sam Topalidis (2026)
(Pontic Historian and Ethnologist)
1. Amarantidis I (2016) 2016 calendar: costumes of the Greek women of Pontos, (English translation by J Graziosi and Y Hunt), Centre for the Study of Traditional Dance ‘Kyklos’ Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2. Amarantidis I (2017) 2017 calendar: costumes of the Greek men of Pontos, (English translation by T Paraskevopoulos and Y Hunt), Centre for the Study of Traditional Dance ‘Kyklos’ Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
3. Andreadis G (1995) The cryptochristians: klostoi: those who returned, tenesur: those who have changed, Kyriakidis Brothers, Thessaloniki, Greece.
4. Ballian A (ed) (2011) Relics of the past: treasures of the Greek Orthodox Church and the Population Exchange, the Benaki Museum collections, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece.
5. Bryer A and Lowry H (eds) (1986) Continuity and change in late Byzantine and early Ottoman society, papers given at Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, May 1982, The University of Birmingham, England.
6. Bryer A and Winfield D (1985) The Byzantine monuments and topography of the Pontos, I–II, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, Harvard University, Washington DC, USA.
7. Bryer A, Winfield D, Balance S and Isaac J (2002) The post-Byzantine monuments of the Pontos: a source book, Variorum Collected Studies Series, Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire, England.
8. Eastmond A (ed) (2016) Byzantium's other empire: Trebizond, Koç University Press, Istanbul, Turkey.
9. Fan Bouteneff P (2002) Exiles on stage: the modern Pontic Theatre in Greece, Epitropi Pontiakon Meleton [Centre for Pontic Studies] Athens, Greece.
10. Fotiadis KE (2019) The genocide of the Pontian Greeks, (unknown English translator), KE Fotiadis, (unknown place of publication).
11. Gondicas D and Issawi C (eds) (1999) Ottoman Greeks in the age of nationalism: politics, economy, and society in the nineteenth century, The Darwin Press Inc, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
12. Greek Patriarchate (1919) Persecution of the Greeks in Turkey 1914-1918, (Greek Patriarchate in Constantinople), Hesperia Press, London, England.
13. Hamilton WJ (1842) Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia: with some account of their antiquities and geology, 1, (originally published by John Murray, London), reprinted 2009.
14. Hirschon R (ed) (2003) Crossing the Aegean: an appraisal of the 1923 compulsory population exchange between Greece and Turkey, Berghahn Books, New York, USA.
15. Hofmann T, Bjornlund M and Meichanetsidis V (eds) (2011) The genocide of the Ottoman Greeks: Studies on the state-sponsored campaign of extermination of the Christians of Asia Minor (1912–1922) and its aftermath: history, law, memory, Aristide D Caratzas, New York, USA.
16. Hovannisian RG (ed) (2009) Armenian Pontus: the Trebizond-Black Sea communities, Mazda Publishers Inc, Costa Mesa, California, USA.
17. Kennedy S (ed) (2019) Two works on Trebizond: Michael Panaretos, Bessarion, (edited and translated by S Kennedy), Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University
Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
18. Kevorkian R (2011) The Armenian genocide: a complete history, I.B. Tauris, London, England.
19. Koromila M (2002) The Greeks and the Black Sea: from the Bronze Age to the early 20th century, new and enlarged edition, (translated into English by A Doumas and EK Fowden), The Panorama Cultural Society, Athens, Greece.
20. Lowry HW (2009) The Islamization Turkification of the city of Trabzon (Trebizond), 1461–1583, The Isis Press, Istanbul, Turkey.
21. Lynch HFB (1901) Armenia: travels and studies, I–II, (reprinted 1967), Khayats, Beirut, Lebanon.
22. Morris B and Ze’evi D (2019) The thirty-year genocide: Turkey’s destruction of its Christian minorities 1894–1924, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
23. Pentzopoulos D (1962) The Balkan exchange of minorities and its impact upon Greece, Mouton & Co, Paris, France.
24. Popov A (2016) Culture, ethnicity and migration after Communism: the Pontic Greeks, Routledge, London, England.
25. Roller DW (2020) Empire of the Black Sea: the rise and fall of the Mithridatic world, Oxford University Press, New York, USA.
26. Shenk R and Koktzoglou S (eds) (2020) The Greek genocide in American naval war diaries: naval commanders report and protest death marches and massacres in Turkey’s Pontus region, 1921–1922, University of New Orleans Press, USA.
27. Surmelian LZ (1946) I ask you, ladies and gentlemen, Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, England.
28. Topalidis S (2024) Greek Pontos, Kyriakidis Bros, Thessaloniki, Greece.
29. Üre P (2020) Reclaiming Byzantium: Russia, Turkey and the archaeological claim to the Middle East in the 19th century, IB Taurus, London, England.
30. Xenophon, The Persian expedition, (translated into English by R Warner published 1972), Penguin Classics, London, England.