The Tatars are a Turkic-speaking people living across the territory of Eurasia. From the X century until 1927, the Tatars used a writing system based on Arabic script. Between 1928...
Caucasians. Adоarians
The Adjarians are an ethnographic group of Georgians and the indigenous population of Adjara, an autonomous region in southwestern Georgia with its administrative center in Batumi. The Adjarian dialect of...
Khevsur in armor with gun
The Khevsurs are an ethnographic group of Georgians who for centuries lived in the harsh highlands of Khevsureti (north of Tbilisi, right by the main Caucasus range). Even in XIX...
Caucasians. Gurian lady with jug on shoulder
The Gurian people are an ethnographic group of Georgians originating from Guria, a region in western Georgia on the Black Sea coast. One of the main calling cards of Guria...
Caucasian volunteer
Caucasian soldiers most often served in irregular units, militias, and convoys. During the years of war, so-called “mountain militia” or “hunters” were formed from them — detachments organised along ethnic...
Caucasians. Armenian lady
The Armenian national costume is called taraz. The word itself, when translated from Armenian, means “appearance,” “look,” “form,” or “style.” Women’s taraz was striking for its particular elegance, multilayered structure,...