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Ethnic groups in the Caucasus

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region, being replaced by ancient Anatolian and European alleles. Ancient Anatolian alleles are common in the genomes of modern peoples in Georgia and east Turkey (i.e. Georgians from Meskheti province, Laz and Armenians). But for peoples from north Caucasus, ancient Balkan alleles were common. Intensified immigration to the Caucasus during the early post-
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Language Speakers'. The linguistic nationalities that we now recognise are somewhat artificial. Two hundred years, ago a person's loyalty was to their friends, kin, village and chief and not primarily to their language group. The difference between steppe, mountain and plain was far more important
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significantly contributed to the genetic makeup of modern Caucasian populations but the proportion of CHG alleles are highest in modern peoples that live close to the archaeological sites in western Georgia, where the bones of CHG were discovered. The proportion gradually decreases away from this
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Nasidze, Ivan; Quinque, Dominique; Rahmani, Manijeh; Alemohamad, Seyed Ali; Stoneking, Mark (April 2006). "Concomitant Replacement of Language and mtDNA in South Caspian Populations of Iran". Curr. Biol. 16 (7): 668–73. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2006.02.021.
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South Slope proper: On the south side of the Caucasus the mountains fall quickly to the plains and there is only a small transition zone. The inhabitants were either Georgians with mountain customs or northern mountaineers who had moved south. The
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than difference of language. Only the southern half (and the southernmost part of Dagestan) had organized states, usually Persian or Turkish vassals and few, if any, of these states corresponded well to language groups.
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about 1618. In 1771 many returned to their original homeland and they contracted to their present location in the far northeast, Nogais temporarily taking their place. In the southeast were the isolated
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nomads occupied almost all of the steppe north of the Caucasus. In the nineteenth century they were pushed far southeast to their present location. Formerly part of the eastern steppe was occupied by
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had moved south and were surrounded on three sides by Georgians. East of the Ossets and south of the Ingush-Chechens were three groups of Georgian mountaineers on both sides of the mountain crest:
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Black Sea coast: In the northwest the mountains came down to the sea and the population was Circassian. Southward the coastal plain broadened and the population was
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were semi-nomadic shepherds with small groups in various places and concentrations in Kars province and Nakhchivan. In the far southeast were the Iranian Talysh.
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ethnic groups in northern Iran (near the Caspian Sea) have been proven to be genetically similar to Armenians, Georgians and Azeris. This indicates that the
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Arthur Tsutsiev and Nora Seligman Favorov (translator) Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus, 2014, Map 4 supplemented by Maps 12,18 and 31.
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but were mostly spread out as a minority all over Asia Minor. There were groups of Azeris west of their main area who tended to blend with the Turks. The
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Kovalevskaia, V. B "Central Ciscaucasia in Antiquity and Early Middle Ages: Caucasian Substratum and Migrations of the Iranic-Speaking Tribes." (1988).
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The largest peoples speaking languages which belong to the Caucasian language families and who are currently resident in the Caucasus are the
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against the Russians. For the small groups south of the Ingush-Chechens see South Slope below. To the east along the coast were the Turkic
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with about 3,000,000-5,000,000 speakers. Georgians are the only Caucasian people who have their own undisputedly independent state—
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Caucasians who speak languages which have long been indigenous to the region are generally classified into three groups:
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and are indigenous to what is today Iraq, Northeastern Syria, Northwestern Iran, and Southeastern Turkey. They are
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and Mazanderani ethnic groups are people that immigrated from the Caucasus region to what is now northern Iran.
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were Chechens south of the mountains. Near the Georgian-Azeri linguistic border there were some Avars and
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Gavashelishvili, Alexander; Yanchukov, Alexey; Tarkhnishvili, David; Murtskhvaladze, Marine (2021).
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and had a growing Christian minority. East of the future highway was a north-south band of
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O.Balanovsky et al., "Parallel Evolution of Genes and Languages in the Caucasus Region",
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or Georgian Muslims. In Kars province there were Turks, Kurds and Armenians. The
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This gives ethnic locations about 1775 before the Russians came. NECLS means '
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Language groups in the Caucasus are closely correlated to genetic ancestry.
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or Georgian-speaking Muslims. In the north Azeri area were a few
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in 1607. Today they form a majority in the autonomous republic of
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in the Caucasus number approximately 35,000 people, and live in
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The largest of the Turkic-speaking peoples in the Caucasus are
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was reported in 1728 as having rented winter pastures near the
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independent republic, though not recognised internationally),
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Further South, the land becomes higher. In the west were the
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spoke similar Turkic languages. East of the Balkars were the
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All the peoples of mountain Dagestan were NECLS except the
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From Astrakhan to the Terek River there were the Buddhist
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were Georgian mountaineers. In the center the Iranian
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was also home to a significant minority of ethnic (
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In the Caucasus region, they live in 1192:has Europe's only Buddhist government. 1092:Caucasus Jews of two sub-ethnic groups 1411: 975:and their largest concentration is in 2235:– Buddhist Mongols who migrated from 1896: 7: 2216:Language Speakers' and NWCLS means ' 1960: 1850: 1292:is around 35 million (15 million in 1066:regions of the Caucasus and 1400 in 2204:Homeland of peoples of the Caucasus 2054: 1459: 1443: 1427: 1288:(before 1990). The total number of 1085:, and speak and write Mesopotamian 559:in more than 40 countries (such as 3241:(2011), doi:10.1093/molbev/msr126. 2135: 1623: 25: 3151:. 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Based on genetic studies the 2119: 1820: 1744: 891:reside in the western areas of 2167: 1776: 1395: 1379: 1363: 959:) that centred on the town of 1: 3010:. Journal of Human Evolution. 2991:- enthnic caucasian backsword 2949:Abkhazians of African descent 2248:in the center of the steppe. 2185: 2038: 1680: 1607: 471:Northwest Caucasian languages 241:Northeast Caucasian languages 133:Ethnic groups inhabiting the 4227:Ethnic minorities in Georgia 4217:Ethnic minorities in Armenia 3147:Stephen Adolphe Wurm et al. 2867:Groom wearing a chokha at a 2724:clansmen in Georgia, c. 1910 2576:, or Azerbaijani woman from 1882: 1866: 1728: 1475: 1184:on the western shore of the 1130:. As well as descendants of 1054:. 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Index

People of the Caucasus
Caucasian race

Ethnolinguistic groups
Caucasus
ethnic groups
Caucasus
North Caucasian languages

Georgians
Persians
Azerbaijan
Circassians
Tatars
Ingush

Shatili

Caucasus

Dagestan

Ossetians
Circassians
Kabardians
Chechen
Kartvelian peoples
Northeast Caucasian peoples
Northwest Caucasian peoples
Kartvelian languages

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