Boreas
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Most of the rums (citizen of Rome, not greek!!!) in trabzon don't have the greek ancestor, their ancestors were autochtones people of the area. They might have mostly caucasian and indo-iranic origins. After the colonization of the region by teh Empire of Trebizond (Roma), they were coerced to be christians. In this process, their language shifted to greek. By the same token, this is valid for some of the people in the region who speak armenian and turkish language.
Finally, we can clearly say that, most of them do not have greek, armenian and turk origin, but have caucasian and iranic origin.
Greeks history in Trabzon is older then Chrisitanity. You can read "Anabasis" (Xenophon) to learn more about that it.
There was Capadoccian Rum in the forum, but there is no Rum from Pontus. Logically, they should have more Caucausian admixture as you said.