Republic of Pontus ( , '' Dimokratía tou Póntou '' ) was a proposed Pontic Greek state on the southern coast of the Black Sea . Its territory would have encompassed much of historical Pontus and today forms part of Turkey 's Black Sea Region . The proposed state was discussed at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 , but the Greek government of Eleftherios Venizelos feared the precarious position of such a state and so it was included instead in the larger proposed state of Wilsonian Armenia . Ultimately , however , neither state came into existence and the Pontic Greek population was expelled from Turkey after 1922 and resettled in the Soviet Union or in Greek Macedonia . This state of affairs was later formally recognized as part of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923 . In modern Greek right wing political circles , the exchange is seen as inextricable from the contemporaneous Greek genocide
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Republic of Pontus