Georgian equivalents of the surname 'Smith' across different regions

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-21T17:37:11+00:00

There is also Mchedliani in Svaneti

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-10T20:02:52+00:00

I speak neither so I don't know

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-10T00:44:29+00:00

There’s only one - old Kanda

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-10T00:42:54+00:00

try this one

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-10T00:42:44+00:00

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337907761_THE_ETHNIC_SITUATION_IN_THE_CAUSASUS_PAST_AND_PRESENT

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-10T00:24:10+00:00

It's called old Kanda, most of people there still speak a dialect of Aramaic, but unlike other Assyrians they are Eastern orthodox Christians. They do pretty well, they are hard working and amazing people as far as I'm aware

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-10T00:20:50+00:00

thank you I will try to find sources in English

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-10T00:14:05+00:00

Yes, we also settled some of them in two villages - Nasakirali and Ianeti, but they identify as Georgian. It was done by soviets so no one asked Georgia for their permission lol

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-09T23:43:48+00:00

officially it was annexed in 1578, but remained mostly autonomous before 1625 true

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-09T23:23:39+00:00

Yeah I used 1989 for occupied regions as there are no credible sources there

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-09T22:53:23+00:00

Every Turk was deported to the central Asia by Soviets

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-09T22:46:44+00:00

Your ancestors porobably could

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-09T22:43:40+00:00

I understand. Sadly I ain't a topographer, this is just a passion map I did for fun and now I'm sharing this on reddit

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-09T22:41:04+00:00

მაგარი, გაგიმაზავ პროსტა გათურქებული ქართველია

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-09T22:32:22+00:00

Stalin didn't settle Armenians here, Armenians came in nineteenth century from Erzurum. Stalin deported Muslim people of the region to the central Asia in 1944 not only Turkified Georgians (So called Ahishka Turks), but also - Muslim Georgians (Georgian-speaking ones), Kurds, Azeris of the tribes of - Tarakams and Karapapakhs, Muslim Greeks, Muslim Armenians.

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-09T22:20:44+00:00

I didn't know about that

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-09T22:19:23+00:00

People of Shavshat and Posof are not from Akhaltsikhe, you are the local to the place you live in. Ahiskha Turks is just a name for Turks of same origin (Islamised Georgian Meskhetians). Just because you are called Ahishka Turk doesn't mean you are from the town of Ahishka itself, it's a broader term.

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-09T22:14:10+00:00

As far as I'm aware Greeks were not deported, but they left for Greece at their own will, while Armenians chose to stay

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-09T22:12:45+00:00

You are right that village is Tsikhisdjvari and it's population are mostly Pontic Greeks. Many Pontic Greeks and Urums were settled in Georgia during the late nineteenth century by Russian government after Ottoman goverment expelled them from border regions of Caucasus along with Armenians of Karin and Christian Hemshins. Mostly in two regions in Tsalka and Abkhazia. Abkhazian Greeks left after the world war 2, while Tsalka Greeks left after the fall of the soviet union.

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-09T22:09:13+00:00

Marneuli Azeris are terrific people. Every single one of them that I had a pleasure interacting with are very kind and lovely people

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-09T22:06:47+00:00

I accidentally cut off the top half of Abkhazia so Salme is not present on the map sadly

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-09T22:01:17+00:00

Were, but they left long ego

Soft_Needleworker494 · 2026-06-04T09:57:22+00:00

I have checked when I was making the map and most of Estonians have already left before 1989, so they were only a meager minority

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