circum-Pontic

adjective

Surrounding the Black Sea or relating to the regions surrounding it.

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Meanings

adjectivecircum-Pontic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableSurrounding the Black Sea or relating to the regions surrounding it.

    [...] the circum-Pontic region.

    2020, Harald Haarmann, Advancement in Ancient Civilizations: Life, Culture, Science & Thought, page 14
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    [...] the circum-Pontic region, which replaced the Old European Copper Age.

    1997, The Kurgan Culture and teh Indo-Europeanization of Europe, page 270

    [...] the circum-Pontic steppes and dispersed towards the Lower Danube and the Carpathian Basin.

    2001, The Archaeology of Cult and Religion, page 211

    [...] the circum-Pontic region during the second half of the fourth millennium BCE.

    2005, The Rule of Mars, page 62

Origin

From circum- + Pontic.

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Translations

French circumpontique
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Italian circumpontico
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APA

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Chicago

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