Dictionary Summary: 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](/acts#Acts.2.9)), and to “strangers scattered throughout Pontus,” among others, Peter addresses his first epistle ([1 Pet. 1:1](/1pet#1Pet.1.1)). It was evidently the resort of many Jews of the Dispersion. Aquila was a native of Pontus ([Acts 18:2](/acts#Acts.18.2)). ²