Dict: easton - Pontus

easton:

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 kjv@Acts:2:9), and to "strangers scattered throughout Pontus," among others, Peter addresses his first epistle ( kjv@1Peter:1:1). It was evidently the resort of many Jews of the Dispersion. Aquila was a native of Pontus kjv@Acts:18:2).