Eparchy of Batumi and Lazeti information

Eparchy of Batumi and Lazeti (Georgian: ბათუმისა და ლაზეთის ეპარქია) is an eparchy (diocese) of the Georgian Orthodox Church with its seat in Batumi,...

beginning of September in Sarpi village, Khelvachauri District. Festival has revived the former lifestyle of Lazeti residents and moments of human relations...

or Lazeti (Laz: ლაზონა, romanized: Lazona; Georgian: ლაზეთი, or ჭანეთი Ç'aneti; Ottoman Turkish: لازستان, romanized: Lazistān) is a historical and cultural...

the early 4th century, the Christian eparchy (eastern bishopric) of Pityus was established in this kingdom, and as in neighboring Iberia Christianity...

Lazistan (Laz: ლაზონა / Lazona, ლაზეთი / Lazeti, ჭანეთი / Ç'aneti; Ottoman Turkish: لازستان, Lazistān) was the Ottoman administrative name for the sanjak...

variants of a single Zan language, a view held officially in the Soviet era and still so in Georgia today. In general, however, Mingrelian and Laz are...

ლაზი თისჲაფე, sumoşi lazi tisyape), also known as Holy Martyrs of Lazeti, are saints of the Georgian Orthodox Church, who were put to death for not renouncing...

Turkonaşe) are Turkish citizens of Laz descent, an ethnic group native to the eastern Black Sea coast of Turkey and southwestern Georgia. The Turkish...

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circulation of 1,000 printed newspapers distributed in Laz populated area (Rize and Artvin Provinces) and the cities of western part of Turkey, where...

coastal regions of Turkey and Georgia. There are about 2,000 Laz in Georgia, mainly in Sarpi, Kvariati and Gonio villages and Batumi. Laz identity in...

architectural canon of the church is very well studied and it belongs to the eastern school of the mid and late Byzantine periods. According to the planning...

The Seven Brothers of Lazia are the seven martyred brothers: Orentius, Cyriacus, Firminus, Firmus, Heros, Longinus, and Pharnacius. They were soldiers...

coastal regions of Turkey and Georgia. The earliest recorded Laz immigrants had come to Germany from Turkey in the 1970s, as a result of a labour recruitment...

in Abkhazia, but the fate of them is obscure at present. Laz is divided into three dialects: Khopa-Chkhala, Vitze-Arkabe and Atina-Artasheni. Dialectical...

under the jurisdiction of Batumi and Lazeti, Akhaltsikhe and Tao-Klarjeti, and Akhalkalaki, Kumurdo and Kars eparchies. Christianity in Turkey Wikimedia...

of Batumi, Lazeti, North America and Canada: Dimitri (Shiolashvili) Metropolitan of Vani and Baghdati: Anton (Buluhiya) Metropolitan of Zugdidi and Tsaishi:...