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The Pontus Greek Society, which their headquarters were located in Samsun, was an association that has worked to establish a Pontus Republic in Trabzon (Trebizond), Samsun (Pontic Greek: Sampsúnta) and other North Anatolian provinces.

Establishment and activities
The society is one of the non-Muslim societies such as Hınçak and Taşnaksütyun operating in this period. The society got its name from Pontus, the old name of the Black Sea region in ancient times. Under the conditions brought by the Mondros Armistice, the Greeks started propaganda activities to establish a state and established a newspaper called Pontus. This association, which organizes the activities have begun to 25,000 people, was built with the Grand National Assembly of Turkey's work is distributed by the Central Army.

December 1st of 1922, at the Lausanne Conference, meeting at the end of the first part in 13 separate sessions Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey Treaty was accepted. As a result of this decision, 193,000 Greeks living in Trabzon province (from Samsun to Rize at that time) migrated to Greece by ferries at the beginning of 1923. As a result of this exchange, there are no Greek residents in the Black Sea region.