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Here I will post about Lazish people
Lazes and their mountain version Tzans live in the South-West Caucasus near the Black Sea coast
They are the only Caucasian people who were and are typical Sea people
Part of Lazistan are now Turkey, other little part is on Georgian side
Laz folk songs, dances, poetry is connected mainly with the sea and fishings
When the Black Sea coast of Anatolia and Less Caucasus mountain systems were populated by Indo-European migrations and then by Altayc peoples, Lazes were the only aboriginal little ethnose who survived in their mountainous Black Sea coast. They are from little South Caucasian language group that is said to be part of one Caucasian language family that includes Mingrelian (actual Mingrelian and Laz/Tzan are two dialects of one language), Svan and Kart languages.
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