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  pontos | Conversê   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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O papo reuniu representantes de 7 Pontos de Cultura, SESC, CulturaDigital e Ministério da Cultura para a criação de um cronograma conjunto de atividades, maior integração com o trabalho da Cultura Digital, MinC-Regional-SP e intercâmbio de experiências entre os Pontos.
Com ele podemos saber onde estão os 492 Pontos de Cultura de todo Brasil, o que já é uma demanda antiga.
converse.org.br /assuntos/pontos   (757 words)

  
  Pontos - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Pontos, in Greek mythology, primal deity embodying the waters.
Pontos sprang from the goddess Gaea, or Mother Earth.
Nereus, in Greek mythology, sea god, son of the sea god Pontos and Gaea, Mother Earth, called the old man of the sea.
ca.encarta.msn.com /Pontos.html   (50 words)

  
 PONTOS simulation model description
PONTOS is a physical coastline model, in which the coastal cross-section is schematised into several layers that display the sand mass.
PONTOS, a multilayer coastline model, is schematised as a number of mutually coupled horizontal layers.
The PONTOS model basically uses a schematic cross-shore profile consisting of several layers and associated positions, which proofs to be adequate for the assessment of both global and detailed balance properties.
www.netcoast.nl /tools/rikz/PONTOS.htm   (214 words)

  
 Europa Barbarorum
Though tensions have been eased, the new kingdom of Pontos, ruled by an opportunistic Persian family, in possession of several Hellenic colonies and determined to avail themselves of the benefits the Hellenes have provided them, find themselves trying to secure the mountain regions under their control and expand along the coastline.
The Pontos Euxine is there for the taking and the riches that trade brings to them, along with its influence in the Aegean and Mediterranean, will be the source of their power.
With Pontos, inherently, you will look to secure your power first by controlling the sea and nearby coastal regions, a number of whom are other petty kingdoms come together as allies against the Seleukids.
www.europabarbarorum.com /factions_pontos.html   (769 words)

  
 Pavlos Kountouriotis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Pontos is the name of the coastal area of Kappadokia, at the northern coast of Asia Minor, which was colonized by the Greeks during the 7th century B.C and developed rapidly.
During the period of the First World War the area of Pontos had a serious problems with the Turkish invasions and the Pontiac people was violently persecuted despite the act of people such as Metropolite Chrysanthos who made efforts to help the situation.
What mainly characterizes and differentiates the persecutions of the Greeks of Pontos from the persecutions of Greeks in other areas, is the well-organized resistance of the inhabitants.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWpontos.htm   (411 words)

  
 Pontos (Black Sea)
Greek mythology refers to Jason and the Argonauts who passed Ellispontos and arrived to Kolchis (Georgia), the punishment of Prometheus by Zeus because he gave the fire to the man and the arresting of his body to the mountains of Caucasus.
Andrew and St. Peter profited from the fact that the spoken language was Greek and spread Christianity to Pontos.
Up to the year 1918 the Greeks of Pontos had the leading economical role in the region.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/7823/pontos.html   (451 words)

  
 IGN Boards - Europa Barbarorum Preview! Pontos! (Pontus)
The name Pontos is geographical, not ethnic, in origin, and was first used to designate that part of Kappadokia which bordered on the "Pontos," as the Euxine was often termed.
Pontos had acquired nominal independence from Persia around 363 BC and was able to maintain it during the Macedonian period.
In Pontos Mithradates I, was the son of a Persian satrap taking advantage of the confusion caused by the Wars of the Diadochi, came to Pontos with only six horsemen and was able to assume the title of king, he died in 266 after a reign of thirty-six years.
boards.ign.com /message.asp?topic=92941766&replies=3   (4253 words)

  
 GOM - Measuring Systems - PONTOS
PONTOS enables the precise position, motion and deformation calculation of structures and components.
PONTOS delivers the dynamic, accurate and synchronized position of an unlimited number of markers.
Independent of the structures to be measured, displacements and deformations are captured rapidly in a non-contact manner.
www.gom.com /EN/measuring.systems/pontos/system/system.html   (91 words)

  
 Motor Ship Pontos Fire, June 16, 1970
The Pontos was given permission to anchor in the outer harbor at anchorage "C".
The Pontos was to be moved to berth 49 at daybreak as that wharf had 54 feet of water.
The Pontos must be moved to Berth 49 not later than 0700 hours, June 19, 1970, or we would not allow the ship to enter the harbor and use our wharf facilities.
www.lafire.com /fire_boats/articles_harbor-incidents/19700616_article_MotorShipPontos.htm   (5787 words)

  
 PONTUS : Greek protogenos god of the sea ; mythology ; pictures : PONTOS
PONTOS (or Pontus) was the sea, one of the primeval Protogenoi (or first born gods).
PONTUS (Pontos), a personification of the sea, is described in the ancient cosmogony as a son of Gaea, and as the father of Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto, and Eurybia, by his own mother.
"And Pontos begat Nereus, the eldest of his children, who is true and lies not: and men call him the Old Man because he is trusty and gentle and does not forget the laws of righteousness, but thinks just and kindly thoughts.
www.theoi.com /Protogenos/Pontos.html   (593 words)

  
 Pontic History
For 3000 years the Greeks in the land of Pontos kept their Christian Orthodox religion unchangeable and immutable, as well as their ancient Greek language, in the form of Pontiac dialect.
The Greeks in Pontos created a civilisation that reached quickly in his highest point, zenith, in trade and letters-writing despite the difficult circumstances through the years and time passed.
They created schools for their children(1682 the coaching-tuition school of Trapezounta), from which men of letters and wisdom, were attend and teach teachers, professors, bankers, doctors and other scientists were mostly the vocational education and guidance that Greeks of Pontos had.
www.oud.gr /pontos.htm   (203 words)

  
 Pontos
Todays modern Pontian has been divided and forced to move from nation to nation wondering who he really is. Muslim or Christian a Pontian is of Greek origin if he denies it or not.
Pontos is held under heavy occupation by Turkish Forces while most of the Pontian people have been displaced because of the Genocide of WW1 against their people.
It is with this one belief that we believe in the uniting of all Pontian Cultural Societies and Organizations in and outside of Pontos into a Government in Exile for the Pontian people.
enotitanpride.tripod.com /ellada/id9.html   (138 words)

  
 Trilion Quality Systems - PONTOS - Dynamic Photogrammetry for automated, non-contact deformation measurments - NVH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
PONTOS delivers the dynamic, synchronized and accurate position of an unlimited number of measurement points in 3D space.
The displacement of the markers can be determined, graphically visualized or exported by capturing images at different load or movement situations.
PONTOS is based on the proven ARAMIS two camera technology.
www.trilion.com /Pd_PONTOS.html   (322 words)

  
 Short Synopsis of the Pontian-Greek History
The presence of Greeks at the Euxeinos Pontos, the Black Sea, dates back to early times.
Both of them and also later the church fathers profited from the fact that in most of the hellinized indigenous societies the spoken language was Greek.
Alexios, a member of the dynasty of the Komnenes, and his brother David, founded with the help of their aunt, the Georgian queen Thamar, in Pontos the Empire of the Great Komnenes of Trebizond.
www.pontos.org /englsh/istoria/fotiad1.htm   (899 words)

  
 Greek folk dance regions: Pontos
This overview of Pontian dances is taken from the chapter on Pontos from Yvonne Hunt's book, Traditional Dance in Greek Culture.
The word Pontos means "sea" and "...was first used to denote those Greeks living on the Black Sea coast in order to distinguish them from those Greeks in Central Cappadocia.
This name.is used in the western part of Pontos while those from the eastern regions usually call it Pipilomátena.
www.dunav.org.il /dance_regions/greece_pontos.html   (2575 words)

  
 Pontos (Black Sea)
The presence of Greeks at the Euxeinus Pontos, the Black Sea, dates thousands years ago (about 1200 BC).
Greek mythology refers to Jason and the Argonauts who passed Ellispontos and arrived to Kolchis (Georgia) to retake the golden hide that Frixos brother of Elli's had left there, the punishment of Prometheus by Zeus because he gave the fire to the man and the arresting of his body to the mountains of Caucasus.
Up to the year 1910 the Greeks of Pontos had the leading economical role in the region.
members.fortunecity.com /fstav1/pontos/pontos.html   (684 words)

  
 Asia Minor Coins - Pontos (Pontus)
Originally part of that more central territory called Cappadocia, the region which was naturally secured by surrounding mountain ranges and the sea, was created in the aftermath of the death of Alexander.
Pontos had been largely colonized by Greeks for several centuries prior to the campaigns of Alexander, but his conquests gave Hellenization a firm hold over the inhabitants.
Pontos, as its own state, was founded by Mithridates I in the dynastic struggles that followed the death of Alexander.
www.asiaminorcoins.com /pontos.html   (748 words)

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