pontus

Pontus
    n 1: (Greek mythology) ancient personification of the sea;
         father of Nereus [syn: {Pontus}, {Pontos}]
    2: an ancient region of northern Asia Minor on the Black Sea; it
       reached its height under Mithridates VI but was later
       incorporated into the Roman Empire
    

Pontus
a province of Asia Minor, stretching along the southern coast of
the Euxine Sea, corresponding nearly to the modern province of
Trebizond. In the time of the apostles it was a Roman province.
Strangers from this province were at Jerusalem at Pentecost
(Acts 2:9), and to "strangers scattered throughout Pontus,"
among others, Peter addresses his first epistle (1 Pet. 1:1). It
was evidently the resort of many Jews of the Dispersion. Aquila
was a native of Pontus (Acts 18:2).
    

Pontus, the sea