Laz people in Georgia ლაზები საქართველოში ლაზეფე ოქორთურაშე
Part of historical Lazeti in modern international borders of Georgia.
Total population
2,000
Regions with significant populations
Adjara, Abkhazia, Mingrelia, Tbilisi
Languages
Laz, Georgian
Religion
Georgian Orthodoxy
Laz people
Place of distribution
Lazistan
Georgia
Turkey
Germany
Religion
Sunni Islam
Christianity
Eparchy of Batumi and Lazeti
The Seven Brothers of Lazia
Laz Martyrs
Churches: Jibistasi, Noghedi, Pironity
Culture
Laz language
Laz grammar
Barchkhali
Dance
Cuisine
Agani Murutsxi (Newspaper)
History
Colchian culture
ancient Colchian tribes
Colchis
Satrapy of Persia
Greek colonisation
Pontus
Roman rule
Kingdom of Lazica
Christianization
Byzantine rule
Trebizond Empire
Kingdom of Imereti
Ottoman rule
Hellenization
Laz rebellion (1832–1834)
Related peoples
Mingrelians
Svans
other groups of Georgians
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The Laz people in Georgia (Georgian: ლაზები საქართველოში, Lazebi Sakartveloshi; Laz: ლაზეფე ოქორთურაშე, Lazepe Okorturaşe) refers to an indigenous Kartvelian-speaking ethnic group inhabiting the Black Sea coastal regions of Turkey and Georgia. There are about 2,000 Laz in Georgia,[1] mainly in Sarpi, Kvariati and Gonio villages and Batumi. Laz identity in Georgia has largely merged with a Georgian identity, and the meaning of "Laz" is seen as merely a regional category.[2] Kolkhoba is an annual Laz festival held each year at the end of August or the beginning of September in Sarpi, a village in Georgia.[3] Sopho Khalvashi was a first Georgian musician of Laz heritage who represented her home nation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007.
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