Την πατριδα μου εχασα - In dereye, dereye de - Tin patrida'm ehasa - I lost my country

Traditional Greek song from the Pontos area, sung in the Pontian dialect, spoken by the Greeks of the Southern Black Sea shores, in what is now Northern Turkey.



The photos in this video are from the Septemvriana (the "September events"), of September 6-7, 1955, from the Turkish Pogrom against the Greeks of Constantinople, events that led to their forced expulsion from their Byzantine fatherland.