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Georgians in Turkey

Georgians in Turkey (Georgian: ქართველები თურქეთში, romanized: kartvelebi turketshi) refers to citizens and denizens of Turkey who are, or descend from, ethnic Georgians.

The coast, in the provinces of Giresun, Ordu, Samsun, Sinop, Amasya, and Tokat. Chveneburi Georgians (particularly in Fatsa, Ünye, Ordu, Terme, and Çarşamba) largely preserve their language and traditions.

Black Sea

Northwestern Turkey, in the provinces of , Sakarya, Yalova, Kocaeli, Bursa, and Balıkesir.

Düzce

In the census of 1965, those who spoke Georgian as first language were proportionally most numerous in Artvin (3.7%), Ordu (0.9%) and Kocaeli (0.8%).


Georgians live scattered throughout Turkey, although they are primarily concentrated in two major regions:[5]


Magnarella estimated the number of Georgians in Turkey to have been over 60,000 in 1979.[6]

Georgia–Turkey relations

Islam in Georgia

Adjarians

Pontic Greeks

Hamshenis

Iranian Georgians

: Encyclopedic Dictionary (Özhan Öztürk. Karadeniz: Ansiklopedik Sözlük. 2. Cilt. Heyamola Publishing. Istanbul. 2005. ISBN 975-6121-00-9.)

Black Sea

Paul J. Magnarella, The Peasant Venture: Tradition, Migration, and Change among Georgian Peasants in Turkey. (Schenkman Publishing Company: Cambridge, MA, 1979)  0-8161-8271-X

ISBN

Mikaberidze, Alexander (ed., 2007). . Dictionary of Georgian National Biography.

Özkan, Ahmet

Chveneburi

Pirosmani / ფიროსმანი

Gezgin, Ulas Basar (2004) Archived 2018-10-01 at the Wayback Machine. teori.org (includes a list of selected publications on the Georgian communities of Turkey)

Republican and Post-Republican Responses to New Georgian Nationalisms (PhD Proposal in Anthropology)