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mw-list-item"><a href="https://av.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8A%D1%83%D0%BB_%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BA%D1%8A%D0%B0%D0%BB" title="Кавказалъул халкъал – Avaric" lang="av" hreflang="av" data-title="Кавказалъул халкъал" data-language-autonym="Авар" data-language-local-name="Avaric" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Авар</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qafqaz_xalqlar%C4%B1" title="Qafqaz xalqları – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Qafqaz xalqları" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaukaasia_rahvad" title="Kaukaasia rahvad – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Kaukaasia rahvad" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblos_del_C%C3%A1ucaso" title="Pueblos del Cáucaso – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Pueblos del Cáucaso" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka%C5%ADkazaj_popoloj" title="Kaŭkazaj popoloj – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Kaŭkazaj popoloj" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%82%D9%81%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B2" title="مردمان قفقاز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="مردمان قفقاز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peuples_du_Caucase" title="Peuples du Caucase – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Peuples du Caucase" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavkaski_narodi" title="Kavkaski narodi – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Kavkaski narodi" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelompok_etnik_di_Kaukasus" title="Kelompok etnik di Kaukasus – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Kelompok etnik di Kaukasus" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%95%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98_%E1%83%AE%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%AE%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98" title="კავკასიელი ხალხები – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="კავკასიელი ხალხები" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7_%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8B%D2%9B%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B" title="Кавказ халықтары – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Кавказ халықтары" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauk%C3%A1zusi_n%C3%A9pek" title="Kaukázusi népek – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Kaukázusi népek" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8" title="Кавкаски народи – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Кавкаски народи" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaokaziana_(vahoaka)" title="Kaokaziana (vahoaka) – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Kaokaziana (vahoaka)" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%95%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98_%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%97%E1%83%94%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98" title="კავკაციარი კათეფი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="კავკაციარი კათეფი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavkaz_xalqlari" title="Kavkaz xalqlari – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Kavkaz xalqlari" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D9%81%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%85" title="قفقازی اقوام – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="قفقازی اقوام" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%8B_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0" title="Народы Кавказа – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Народы Кавказа" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%83%D0%B3%D1%83_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Хотугу Хапхаас норуоттара – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Хотугу Хапхаас норуоттара" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8" title="Кавкаски народи – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Кавкаски народи" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavkaski_narodi" title="Kavkaski narodi – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Caucasus-ethnic_en.svg/330px-Caucasus-ethnic_en.svg.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="375" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Caucasus-ethnic_en.svg/495px-Caucasus-ethnic_en.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Caucasus-ethnic_en.svg/660px-Caucasus-ethnic_en.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="977" data-file-height="1111" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Ethnolinguistic_group" title="Ethnolinguistic group">Ethnolinguistic groups</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a> region (2007)<sup id="cite_ref-ECMI_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ECMI-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>peoples of the Caucasus</b>, or <b>Caucasians</b>, are a diverse group comprising more than 50 <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnic group">ethnic groups</a> throughout the <a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="By_language_group">By language group</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethnic_groups_in_the_Caucasus&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: By language group"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Kartvelian_languages" title="Kartvelian languages">Kartvelian languages</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/North_Caucasian_languages" title="North Caucasian languages">North Caucasian languages</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Language_families_indigenous_to_the_Caucasus">Language families indigenous to the Caucasus</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethnic_groups_in_the_Caucasus&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Language families indigenous to the Caucasus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Peoples_of_the_Caucasus.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Peoples_of_the_Caucasus.jpg/220px-Peoples_of_the_Caucasus.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="350" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Peoples_of_the_Caucasus.jpg/330px-Peoples_of_the_Caucasus.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Peoples_of_the_Caucasus.jpg/440px-Peoples_of_the_Caucasus.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3064" data-file-height="4876" /></a><figcaption>Caucasian peoples: <a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Persians" title="Persians">Persians</a> (in <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a>), <a href="/wiki/Circassians" title="Circassians">Circassians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tatars" title="Tatars">Tatars</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ingush_people" title="Ingush people">Ingush</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shatili_fortress,_Georgia.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Shatili_fortress%2C_Georgia.jpg/220px-Shatili_fortress%2C_Georgia.jpg" decoding="async" 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to right): <a href="/wiki/Ossetians" title="Ossetians">Ossetians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Circassians" title="Circassians">Circassians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kabardians" title="Kabardians">Kabardians</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Chechens" title="Chechens">Chechen</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Caucasians who speak languages which have long been indigenous to the region are generally classified into three groups: <a href="/wiki/Kartvelian_languages" title="Kartvelian languages">Kartvelian peoples</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northeast_Caucasian_languages" title="Northeast Caucasian languages">Northeast Caucasian peoples</a> and <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Caucasian_languages" title="Northwest Caucasian languages">Northwest Caucasian peoples</a>. </p><p><b><a href="/wiki/Kartvelian_languages" title="Kartvelian languages">Kartvelian languages</a></b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgian people</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Georgian</a></li> 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people">Godoberis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karata_people" title="Karata people">Karatas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tindi_people" title="Tindi people">Tindis</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dargins" title="Dargins">Dargins</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dargwa_language" title="Dargwa language">Dargwa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaitags" title="Kaitags">Kaitags</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kubachi_language" title="Kubachi language">Kubachins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Itsari_language" title="Itsari language">Itsari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chirag_language" title="Chirag language">Chirag</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khinalug_people" title="Khinalug people">Khinalugs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laks_(Caucasus)" title="Laks (Caucasus)">Laks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lezgic_languages" title="Lezgic languages">Lezgic peoples</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aghul_people" title="Aghul people">Aguls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archi_people" title="Archi people">Archin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Budukh_people" title="Budukh people">Budukhs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jek_people" title="Jek people">Jeks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kryts_people" title="Kryts people">Kryts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lezgins" title="Lezgins">Lezgins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutul_people" title="Rutul people">Rutuls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tabasaran_people" title="Tabasaran people">Tabasarans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsakhur_people" title="Tsakhur people">Tsakhurs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udi_people" title="Udi people">Udis</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nakh_peoples" title="Nakh peoples">Nakh peoples</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arshtins" class="mw-redirect" title="Arshtins">Arshtins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bats_people" title="Bats people">Bats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chechens" title="Chechens">Chechens</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kists" class="mw-redirect" title="Kists">Kists</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ingush_people" title="Ingush people">Ingush</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsezic_languages" title="Tsezic languages">Tsezic (Didoic) peoples</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bezhta_people" title="Bezhta people">Bezhtas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hinukh_people" title="Hinukh people">Hinukhs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunzib_people" title="Hunzib people">Hunzibs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khwarshi_people" title="Khwarshi people">Khwarshis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsez_people" title="Tsez people">Tsez</a></li></ul></li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Northwest_Caucasian_languages" title="Northwest Caucasian languages">Northwest Caucasian languages</a></b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abazins" title="Abazins">Abazins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abkhazians" title="Abkhazians">Abkhazians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circassians" title="Circassians">Circassians</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abzakhs" title="Abzakhs">Abzakhs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Besleney" title="Besleney">Besleneys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bzhedugs" title="Bzhedugs">Bzhedugs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chemirgoys" title="Chemirgoys">Chemirgoys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabardians" title="Kabardians">Kabardians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natukhajs" title="Natukhajs">Natukhajs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shapsugs" title="Shapsugs">Shapsugs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ubykh_people" title="Ubykh people">Ubykhs</a></li></ul></li></ul> <p>The largest peoples speaking languages which belong to the Caucasian language families and who are currently resident in the Caucasus are the <a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a> (3,200,000), the <a href="/wiki/Chechens" title="Chechens">Chechens</a> (2,000,000), the <a href="/wiki/Avars_(Caucasus)" title="Avars (Caucasus)">Avars</a> (1,200,000), the <a href="/wiki/Lezgins" title="Lezgins">Lezgins</a> (about 1,000,000) and the <a href="/wiki/Kabardians" title="Kabardians">Kabardians</a> (600,000), while outside the Caucasus, the largest people of Caucasian origin, in <a href="/wiki/Diaspora" title="Diaspora">diaspora</a> in more than 40 countries (such as <a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>, the countries of Europe, <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>) are the <a href="/wiki/Circassians" title="Circassians">Circassians</a> with about 3,000,000-5,000,000 speakers. Georgians are the only Caucasian people who have their own undisputedly independent state—<a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>. <a href="/wiki/Abkhazia" title="Abkhazia">Abkhazia</a>'s status is disputed. Other Caucasian peoples have republics within <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>: Adyghe (<a href="/wiki/Adygea" title="Adygea">Adygea</a>), Cherkess (<a href="/wiki/Karachay-Cherkessia" title="Karachay-Cherkessia">Karachay-Cherkessia</a>), <a href="/wiki/Kabardians" title="Kabardians">Kabardians</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kabardino-Balkaria" title="Kabardino-Balkaria">Kabardino-Balkaria</a>), <a href="/wiki/Ingush_people" title="Ingush people">Ingush</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ingushetia" title="Ingushetia">Ingushetia</a>), <a href="/wiki/Chechens" title="Chechens">Chechens</a> (<a href="/wiki/Chechnya" title="Chechnya">Chechnya</a>), while other Northeast Caucasian peoples mostly live in <a href="/wiki/Dagestan" title="Dagestan">Dagestan</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Indo-European">Indo-European</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethnic_groups_in_the_Caucasus&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Indo-European"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Komaroff._Carte_ethnologique_du_Caucase,_dress%C3%A9e._1887.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Komaroff._Carte_ethnologique_du_Caucase%2C_dress%C3%A9e._1887.jpg/290px-Komaroff._Carte_ethnologique_du_Caucase%2C_dress%C3%A9e._1887.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="241" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Komaroff._Carte_ethnologique_du_Caucase%2C_dress%C3%A9e._1887.jpg/435px-Komaroff._Carte_ethnologique_du_Caucase%2C_dress%C3%A9e._1887.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Komaroff._Carte_ethnologique_du_Caucase%2C_dress%C3%A9e._1887.jpg/580px-Komaroff._Carte_ethnologique_du_Caucase%2C_dress%C3%A9e._1887.jpg 2x" data-file-width="9672" data-file-height="8022" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Ethnolinguistic_group" title="Ethnolinguistic group">Ethnolinguistic groups</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a> region in 1887</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gagarin_Greben.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Gagarin_Greben.jpg/170px-Gagarin_Greben.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Gagarin_Greben.jpg/255px-Gagarin_Greben.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Gagarin_Greben.jpg/340px-Gagarin_Greben.jpg 2x" data-file-width="456" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Terek_Cossacks" title="Terek Cossacks">Terek Cossacks</a> of the <a href="/wiki/North_Caucasus" title="North Caucasus">North Caucasus</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Caucasians that speak languages belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Indo-European_languages" title="Indo-European languages">Indo-European</a> language family: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armeno-Tats" title="Armeno-Tats">Armeno-Tats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherkesogai" title="Cherkesogai">Cherkesogai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zok_language" title="Zok language">Zoks</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caucasus_Germans" title="Caucasus Germans">Germans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latins" title="Latins">Latins</a>†, including Roman Latin Italian-Greeks Latin Europeans/European Latin Americans</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hellenic_languages" title="Hellenic languages">Hellenic group</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caucasus_Greeks" title="Caucasus Greeks">Caucasus Greeks</a>, including Turkish-speaking Christian Greeks of Georgia or <a href="/wiki/Urums" title="Urums">Urums</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontic_Greeks" title="Pontic Greeks">Pontic Greeks</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_languages" title="Iranian languages">Iranian group</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gilaks" title="Gilaks">Gilaks</a>†</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mazanderani_people" title="Mazanderani people">Mazanderanis</a>†</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ossetians" title="Ossetians">Ossetians</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Digor_people" title="Digor people">Digors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jasz_people" title="Jasz people">Jasz</a>†</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iron_people" title="Iron people">Irons</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talysh_people" title="Talysh people">Talysh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tat_people_(Caucasus)" title="Tat people (Caucasus)">Tats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurds" title="Kurds">Kurds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yazidis" title="Yazidis">Yazidis</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lom_people" title="Lom people">Loms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavic_languages" title="Slavic languages">Slavic group</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Cossacks" title="Cossacks">Cossacks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spiritual_Christians" class="mw-redirect" title="Spiritual Christians">Spiritual Christians</a></li></ul></li></ul> <p><small>†Although the group does not have any inhabitants physically living anywhere in the Caucasus, genetic tests have proven their affinity to Caucasian populations and shown that their ancestors originated from the Caucasus.</small> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a> number 3,215,800 in their native <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a>, though approximately 8 million live outside the republic, forming the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_diaspora" title="Armenian diaspora">Armenian diaspora</a>. Elsewhere in the region, they reside in <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a> (primarily <a href="/wiki/Samtskhe%E2%80%93Javakheti" title="Samtskhe–Javakheti">Samtskhe–Javakheti</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Abkhazia" title="Abkhazia">Abkhazia</a>), and the Russian <a href="/wiki/North_Caucasus" title="North Caucasus">North Caucasus</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Ossetians" title="Ossetians">Ossetians</a> live in <a href="/wiki/North_Ossetia%E2%80%93Alania" title="North Ossetia–Alania">North Ossetia–Alania</a> (an autonomous republic within Russia) and in <a href="/wiki/South_Ossetia" title="South Ossetia">South Ossetia</a>, which is <i><a href="/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a></i> independent, but is <i><a href="/wiki/De_jure" title="De jure">de jure</a></i> part of Georgia. The <a href="/wiki/Yazidis" title="Yazidis">Yazidis</a> reside in the western areas of <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a>, mostly in the <a href="/wiki/Aragatsotn" class="mw-redirect" title="Aragatsotn">Aragatsotn</a> marz, and in the eastern areas of Georgia. An <a href="/wiki/Kurdistansky_Uyezd" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurdistansky Uyezd">autonomous Kurdish region</a> was created in 1923 in <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic">Soviet Azerbaijan</a> but was later abolished in 1929. <a href="/wiki/Pontic_Greeks" title="Pontic Greeks">Pontic Greeks</a> reside in <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lori_Province" title="Lori Province">Lori Province</a>, especially in <a href="/wiki/Alaverdi,_Armenia" title="Alaverdi, Armenia">Alaverdi</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kvemo_Kartli" title="Kvemo Kartli">Kvemo Kartli</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adjara" title="Adjara">Adjara</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Tsalka" title="Tsalka">Tsalka</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Abkhazia" title="Abkhazia">Abkhazia</a>). <a href="/wiki/Pontic_Greeks" title="Pontic Greeks">Pontic Greeks</a> had also made up a significant component of the <a href="/wiki/South_Caucasus" title="South Caucasus">South Caucasus</a> region acquired from the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a> (following the 1878 <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_San_Stefano" title="Treaty of San Stefano">Treaty of San Stefano</a>) that centred on the town of <a href="/wiki/Kars" title="Kars">Kars</a> (ceded back to <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> in 1916). <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a> mostly live in the Russian <a href="/wiki/North_Caucasus" title="North Caucasus">North Caucasus</a> and their largest concentration is in <a href="/wiki/Stavropol_Krai" title="Stavropol Krai">Stavropol Krai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Krasnodar_Krai" title="Krasnodar Krai">Krasnodar Krai</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Adygea" title="Adygea">Adygea</a>. <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a> and the former Russian <a href="/wiki/South_Caucasus" title="South Caucasus">South Caucasus</a> province of <a href="/wiki/Kars_Oblast" class="mw-redirect" title="Kars Oblast">Kars Oblast</a> was also home to a significant minority of ethnic (<a href="/wiki/Swabians" title="Swabians">Swabian</a>) <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">Germans</a>, although their numbers have become depleted as a result of deportations (to <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a> following <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>), immigration to <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, and assimilation into indigenous communities. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Semitic">Semitic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethnic_groups_in_the_Caucasus&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Semitic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Caucasians that speak languages belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Semitic_languages" title="Semitic languages">Semitic</a> language family: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Assyrians</a> in the Caucasus number approximately 35,000 people, and live in <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-aina.org_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aina.org-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a> and southern <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>. There are up to 15,000 in <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-aina.org_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aina.org-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 5000 in <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a>, up to 15,000 in southern <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> regions of the Caucasus and 1400 in <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a>. They descend from the ancient <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamians</a> and are indigenous to what is today Iraq, Northeastern Syria, Northwestern Iran, and Southeastern Turkey. They are <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Christianity" title="Eastern Christianity">Eastern Rite</a> <a href="/wiki/Christians" title="Christians">Christians</a>, mainly followers of the <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_Church_of_the_East" title="Assyrian Church of the East">Assyrian Church of the East</a>, and speak and write Mesopotamian <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Aramaic_languages" title="Eastern Aramaic languages">Eastern Aramaic</a> dialects.</li> <li>Caucasus Jews of two sub-ethnic groups <a href="/wiki/Mountain_Jews" title="Mountain Jews">Mountain Jews</a> and <a href="/wiki/Georgian_Jews" title="Georgian Jews">Georgian Jews</a>. There are about 15,000–30,000 Caucasus Jews (as 140,000 immigrated to Israel, and 40,000 to the US).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arabs_in_the_Caucasus" title="Arabs in the Caucasus">Arabs in the Caucasus</a>: a population of nomadic <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arabs</a> was reported in 1728 as having rented winter pastures near the <a href="/wiki/Caspian_Sea" title="Caspian Sea">Caspian</a> shores of the <a href="/wiki/Mugan_plain" class="mw-redirect" title="Mugan plain">Mugan plain</a> (in present-day <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a>). In 1888, an unknown number of Arabs still lived in the <a href="/wiki/Baku_Governorate" title="Baku Governorate">Baku Governorate</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a>. As well as descendants of <a href="/wiki/Sayyid" title="Sayyid">Sayyid</a> and <a href="/wiki/Siddiqui" title="Siddiqui">Siddiqui</a> – the people with Arabian origin, but mostly assimilated by other Caucasian peoples. However, some people identify not just as Sayyid or Siddiqui with non-Arabian ethnicity, but as Arabs.<sup id="cite_ref-Sefer_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sefer-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wrum_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wrum-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mongolic">Mongolic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethnic_groups_in_the_Caucasus&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Mongolic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Mongolic_languages" title="Mongolic languages">Mongolic languages</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kalmyks" title="Kalmyks">Kalmyks</a></li></ul> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Kalmyks" title="Kalmyks">Kalmyks</a> is the name given to the <a href="/wiki/Oirats" title="Oirats">Oirats</a>, western <a href="/wiki/Mongols" title="Mongols">Mongols</a> in <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, whose ancestors migrated from <a href="/wiki/Dzungaria" title="Dzungaria">Dzungaria</a> in 1607. Today they form a majority in the autonomous republic of <a href="/wiki/Kalmykia" title="Kalmykia">Kalmykia</a> on the western shore of the <a href="/wiki/Caspian_Sea" title="Caspian Sea">Caspian Sea</a>. <a href="/wiki/Kalmykia" title="Kalmykia">Kalmykia</a> has Europe's only Buddhist government.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Turkic">Turkic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethnic_groups_in_the_Caucasus&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Turkic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Caucasians that speak languages belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Turkic_languages" title="Turkic languages">Turkic</a> language family: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kipchaks" title="Kipchaks">Kipchaks</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kumyks" title="Kumyks">Kumyks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balkars" title="Balkars">Balkars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karachays" title="Karachays">Karachays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nogais" title="Nogais">Nogais</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meskhetian_Turks" title="Meskhetian Turks">Meskhetian Turks</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oghuz_Turks" title="Oghuz Turks">Oghuz Turks</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijanis" title="Azerbaijanis">Azerbaijanis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karapapakhs" title="Karapapakhs">Karapapakhs</a></li></ul></li></ul> <p>The largest of the Turkic-speaking peoples in the Caucasus are <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijanis" title="Azerbaijanis">Azerbaijanis</a> who number 8,700,000 in the Republic of <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a>. In the Caucasus region, they live in <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> (<a href="/wiki/Dagestan" title="Dagestan">Dagestan</a>), <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> and previously in <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a> (before 1990). The total number of <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijanis" title="Azerbaijanis">Azerbaijanis</a> is around 35 million (15 million in <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>). Other Turkic speakers live in their autonomous republics within <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>: <a href="/wiki/Karachays" title="Karachays">Karachays</a> (<a href="/wiki/Karachay-Cherkessia" title="Karachay-Cherkessia">Karachay-Cherkessia</a>), <a href="/wiki/Balkars" title="Balkars">Balkars</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kabardino-Balkaria" title="Kabardino-Balkaria">Kabardino-Balkaria</a>), while <a href="/wiki/Kumyks" title="Kumyks">Kumyks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nogais" title="Nogais">Nogais</a> live in <a href="/wiki/Dagestan" title="Dagestan">Dagestan</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="By_population">By population</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethnic_groups_in_the_Caucasus&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: By population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Ethnicities of the Caucasus by their population. </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th>Total population </th> <th>Region </th> <th>Group </th> <th>Languages </th> <th>Subgroup </th> <th>Religion </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mingrelians" title="Mingrelians">Mingrelians</a> </td> <td>288,000<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mingrelia" title="Mingrelia">Samegrelo</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kartvelian_languages" title="Kartvelian languages">Kartvelians</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mingrelian_language" title="Mingrelian language">Mingrelian</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Zans" title="Zans">Zans</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy" title="Eastern Orthodoxy">Orthodox Christianity</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Laz_people" title="Laz people">Lazs</a> </td> <td>1,500,000 <sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lazistan" title="Lazistan">Lazistan</a> </td> <td>Kartvelians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Laz_language" title="Laz language">Laz</a> </td> <td>Zans </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni Islam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Svans" title="Svans">Svans</a> </td> <td>30,000<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Svaneti" title="Svaneti">Svaneti</a> </td> <td>Kartvelians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Svan_language" title="Svan language">Svan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Svans" title="Svans">Svans</a> </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a> </td> <td>5,000,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a> </td> <td>Kartvelians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Georgian</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a> </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ingiloy_people" title="Ingiloy people">Ingiloys</a> </td> <td>14,900<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Saingilo" title="Saingilo">Saingilo</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hereti" class="mw-redirect" title="Hereti">Hereti</a>) </td> <td>Kartvelians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Ingiloan dialect</a> </td> <td>Georgians </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Meskhetians" title="Meskhetians">Meskhetians</a> </td> <td>77,498<sup id="cite_ref-dm_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dm-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Meskheti" title="Meskheti">Samtskhe</a> </td> <td>Kartvelians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Meskhetian dialect</a> </td> <td>Georgians </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Guria" title="Guria">Gurians</a> </td> <td>104,338<sup id="cite_ref-dm_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dm-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guria" title="Guria">Guria</a> </td> <td>Kartvelians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Gurian dialect</a> </td> <td>Georgians </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tushetians" title="Tushetians">Tushs</a> </td> <td>30,000<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tusheti" title="Tusheti">Tusheti</a> </td> <td>Kartvelians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Tushetian dialect</a> </td> <td>Georgians </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Rachians" class="mw-redirect" title="Rachians">Rachians</a> </td> <td>52,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Racha" title="Racha">Racha</a> </td> <td>Kartvelians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Racha dialect</a> </td> <td>Georgians </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pshavi" title="Pshavi">Pshavs</a> </td> <td>30,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pshavi" title="Pshavi">Pshavi</a> </td> <td>Kartvelians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Pshavian dialect</a> </td> <td>Georgians </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Khevi" title="Khevi">Mokhevians</a> </td> <td>7,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Khevi" title="Khevi">Khevi</a> </td> <td>Kartvelians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Khevi dialect</a> </td> <td>Georgians </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Khevsurians" title="Khevsurians">Khevsurians</a> </td> <td>10,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Khevsureti" title="Khevsureti">Khevsureti</a> </td> <td>Kartvelians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Khevsur dialect</a> </td> <td>Georgians </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kakhetians" title="Kakhetians">Kakhetians</a> </td> <td>500,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kakheti" title="Kakheti">Kakheti</a> </td> <td>Kartvelians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Kakheti dialect</a> </td> <td>Georgians </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Imereti" title="Imereti">Imeretians</a> </td> <td>400,000–600,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Imereti" title="Imereti">Imereti</a> </td> <td>Kartvelians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Imeretian dialect</a> </td> <td>Georgians </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Javakhians" title="Javakhians">Javakhians</a> </td> <td>5,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Javakheti" title="Javakheti">Javakheti</a> </td> <td>Kartvelians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Javakhian dialect</a> </td> <td>Georgians </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Adjarians" title="Adjarians">Adjarians</a> </td> <td>560.000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Adjara" title="Adjara">Adjara</a> </td> <td>Kartvelians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Adjarian dialect</a> </td> <td>Georgians </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Fereydan" title="Fereydan">Fereydani</a> </td> <td>100,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Faridan_County" title="Faridan County">Fereydan</a> </td> <td>Kartvelians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgian_language" title="Georgian language">Pereidnuli dialect</a> </td> <td>Georgians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shia_Islam" title="Shia Islam">Shia Islam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Andi_people" title="Andi people">Andis</a> </td> <td>40,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dagestan" title="Dagestan">Andia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Northeast_Caucasian_languages" title="Northeast Caucasian languages">Northeast caucasians</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Andi_language" title="Andi language">Andi</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Avar%E2%80%93Andic_languages" title="Avar–Andic languages">Avar–Andic people</a> </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Akhvakh_people" title="Akhvakh people">Akhvakhs</a> </td> <td>10,000 </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Akhvakh_district&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Akhvakh district (page does not exist)">Akhvakh district</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Akhvakh_language" title="Akhvakh language">Akhvakh</a> </td> <td>Avar–Andic people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Avars_(Caucasus)" title="Avars (Caucasus)">Avars</a> </td> <td>1,200,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Avar_Khanate" title="Avar Khanate">Avaria</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Avar_language" title="Avar language">Avar</a> </td> <td>Avar–Andic people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Bagvalal_people" title="Bagvalal people">Bagvalals</a> </td> <td>5,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tsumadinsky_District" title="Tsumadinsky District">Tsumadinsky District</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bagvalal_language" title="Bagvalal language">Bagvalal</a> </td> <td>Avar–Andic people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Botlikh_people" title="Botlikh people">Botlikhs</a> </td> <td>3,788 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Botlikhsky_District" title="Botlikhsky District">Botlikhsky District</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Botlikh_language" title="Botlikh language">Botlikh</a> </td> <td>Avar–Andic people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chamalal_people" title="Chamalal people">Chamalals</a> </td> <td>10,000 </td> <td>Tsumadinsky District </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chamalal_language" title="Chamalal language">Chamalal</a> </td> <td>Avar–Andic people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Godoberi_people" title="Godoberi people">Godoberi</a> </td> <td>4,000 </td> <td>Botlikhsky District </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Godoberi_language" title="Godoberi language">Godoberi</a> </td> <td>Avar–Andic people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Karata_people" title="Karata people">Karatas</a> </td> <td>7,500 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Khasavyurtovsky_District" title="Khasavyurtovsky District">Khasavyurtovsky District</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Karata-Tukita_language" title="Karata-Tukita language">Karata</a> </td> <td>Avar–Andic people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tindi_language" title="Tindi language">Tindi</a> </td> <td>10,000 </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andi-Koysu_river&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andi-Koysu river (page does not exist)">Andi-Koysu river</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tindi_language" title="Tindi language">Tindi</a> </td> <td>Avar–Andic people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Dargins" title="Dargins">Dargins</a> </td> <td>700,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dagestan" title="Dagestan">Darginia</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dargwa_language" title="Dargwa language">Dargwa</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dargins" title="Dargins">Dargins</a> </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kaitags" title="Kaitags">Kaitag</a> </td> <td>25,000–30,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kaytagsky_District" title="Kaytagsky District">Kaytagsky District</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kaitag_language" title="Kaitag language">Kaitag</a> </td> <td>Dargins </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kubachi_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Kubachi people">Kubachi</a> </td> <td>7,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kubachi_(urban-type_settlement)" title="Kubachi (urban-type settlement)">Kubachi</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kubachi_language" title="Kubachi language">Kubachin</a> </td> <td>Dargins </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Itsari_language" title="Itsari language">Itsaris</a> </td> <td>2,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Itsari" title="Itsari">Itsari</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Itsari_language" title="Itsari language">Itsari</a> </td> <td>Dargins </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chirag_language" title="Chirag language">Chirags</a> </td> <td>2,000 </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chirag_settlement&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chirag settlement (page does not exist)">Chirag</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chirag_language" title="Chirag language">Chirag</a> </td> <td>Dargins </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Khinalug_people" title="Khinalug people">Khinalugs</a> </td> <td>2,233 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shahdagh_people" title="Shahdagh people">Shahdag</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Khinalug_language" title="Khinalug language">Khinalug</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Khinalug_people" title="Khinalug people">Khinalugs</a> </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Laks_(Caucasus)" title="Laks (Caucasus)">Laks</a> </td> <td>200,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lakia" title="Lakia">Lakia</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lak_language" title="Lak language">Lak</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Laks_(Caucasus)" title="Laks (Caucasus)">Laks</a> </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Lezgins" title="Lezgins">Lezgins</a> </td> <td>1,000,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lezgistan" title="Lezgistan">Lezgistan</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lezgian_language" title="Lezgian language">Lezgian</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lezgic_languages" title="Lezgic languages">Lezgic people</a> </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Aghul_people" title="Aghul people">Aghuls</a> </td> <td>45,000 </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aguldere_gorge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aguldere gorge (page does not exist)">Aguldere gorge</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Aghul_language" title="Aghul language">Aghul</a> </td> <td>Lezgic people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Archi_people" title="Archi people">Archin</a> </td> <td>5,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Archib" title="Archib">Archib</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Archi_language" title="Archi language">Archin</a> </td> <td>Lezgic people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Budukh_people" title="Budukh people">Budukhs</a> </td> <td>1,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shahdagh_people" title="Shahdagh people">Shahdag</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Budukh_language" title="Budukh language">Budukh</a> </td> <td>Lezgic people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tabasaran_people" title="Tabasaran people">Tabasarans</a> </td> <td>155,000 </td> <td>Tabarstan </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tabasaran_language" title="Tabasaran language">Tabasaran</a> </td> <td>Lezgic people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jek_people" title="Jek people">Jeks</a> </td> <td>11,000 </td> <td>Shahdag </td> <td>Northeast caucasianss </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jek_language" title="Jek language">Jek</a> </td> <td>Lezgic people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kryts_people" title="Kryts people">Kryts</a> </td> <td>10,000–15,000 </td> <td>Shahdag </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kryts_language" title="Kryts language">Kryts</a> </td> <td>Lezgic people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Rutul_people" title="Rutul people">Rutuls</a> </td> <td>120,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rutulsky_District" title="Rutulsky District">Rutulsky District</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rutul_language" title="Rutul language">Rutul</a> </td> <td>Lezgic people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tsakhur_people" title="Tsakhur people">Tsakhurs</a> </td> <td>30,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tsakhur_(village)" title="Tsakhur (village)">Tsakhur</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tsakhur_language" title="Tsakhur language">Tsakhur</a> </td> <td>Lezgic people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Udi_people" title="Udi people">Udis</a> </td> <td>10,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Utik" title="Utik">Utik</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Udi_language" title="Udi language">Udi</a> </td> <td>Lezgic people </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Caucasian_Albania#Modern_Caucasian_Albanian-Udi_Church" title="Church of Caucasian Albania">Albanian-Udi Church</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Bats_language" title="Bats language">Bats</a> </td> <td>3,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tusheti" title="Tusheti">Tusheti</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bats_language" title="Bats language">Bats</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nakh_peoples" title="Nakh peoples">Nakh people</a> </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chechens" title="Chechens">Chechens</a> </td> <td>2,000,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chechnya" title="Chechnya">Chechnya</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chechen_language" title="Chechen language">Chechen</a> </td> <td>Nakh people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ingush_people" title="Ingush people">Ingush</a> </td> <td>700,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ingushetia" title="Ingushetia">Ingushetia</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ingush_language" title="Ingush language">Ingush</a> </td> <td>Nakh people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tsez_people" title="Tsez people">Tsez</a> </td> <td>30,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tsunta_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Tsunta District">Tsunta district</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tsez_language" title="Tsez language">Tsez</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tsezic_languages" title="Tsezic languages">Tsezic (Didoic) people</a> </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Bezhta_people" title="Bezhta people">Bezhta</a> </td> <td>13,000 </td> <td>Tsunta district </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bezhta_language" title="Bezhta language">Bezhta</a> </td> <td>Tsezic (Didoic) people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hinukh_people" title="Hinukh people">Hinukh</a> </td> <td>4,000 </td> <td>Tsunta district </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hinuq_language" title="Hinuq language">Hinukh</a> </td> <td>Tsezic (Didoic) people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hunzib_people" title="Hunzib people">Hunzib</a> </td> <td>6,200 </td> <td>Tsunta district </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hunzib_language" title="Hunzib language">Hunzib</a> </td> <td>Tsezic (Didoic) people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Khwarshi_people" title="Khwarshi people">Khwarshis</a> </td> <td>8,500 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tsumadinsky_District" title="Tsumadinsky District">Tsumadinsky district</a> </td> <td>Northeast caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Khwarshi_language" title="Khwarshi language">Khwarshi</a> </td> <td>Tsezic (Didoic) people </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abazins" title="Abazins">Abaza</a> </td> <td>150,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abasgia" title="Abasgia">Abasgia</a> </td> <td>Northwest caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abaza_language" title="Abaza language">Abazin</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abazins" title="Abazins">Abazins</a> </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abkhazians" title="Abkhazians">Abkhazians</a> </td> <td>185,000–600,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abkhazia" title="Abkhazia">Abkhazia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Northwest_Caucasian_languages" title="Northwest Caucasian languages">Northwest caucasians</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abkhaz_language" title="Abkhaz language">Abkhaz</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abkhazians" title="Abkhazians">Abkhazians</a> </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity in <a href="/wiki/Abkhazia" title="Abkhazia">Abkhazia</a> <p>Sunni Islam in <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Circassians" title="Circassians">Circassians</a> </td> <td>5,300,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Circassia" title="Circassia">Circassia</a> </td> <td>Northwest caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Circassian_languages" title="Circassian languages">Circassian</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Circassians" title="Circassians">Circassians</a> </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kabardians" title="Kabardians">Kabardians</a> </td> <td>1,628,500 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kabardia" title="Kabardia">Kabardia</a> </td> <td>Northwest caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kabardian_language" title="Kabardian language">Kabardian dialect</a> </td> <td>Circassians </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ubykh_people" title="Ubykh people">Ubykhs</a> </td> <td>20,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ubykhia" title="Ubykhia">Ubykhia</a> </td> <td>Northwest caucasians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ubykh_language" title="Ubykh language">Ubykh</a> </td> <td>Circassians </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a> </td> <td>2,700,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indo-European_languages" title="Indo-European languages">Indo-Europeans</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Armenian_language" title="Armenian language">Armenian</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Apostolic_Church" title="Armenian Apostolic Church">Armenian Apostolic</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Cherkesogai" title="Cherkesogai">Cherkesogai</a> </td> <td>100,000–350,000 </td> <td>Circassia </td> <td>Indo-Europeans </td> <td>Circassian, <p>Armenian </p> </td> <td>Armenians </td> <td>Armenian Apostolic </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Zok_language" title="Zok language">Zoks</a> </td> <td>few </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Goghtn" title="Goghtn">Goghtn</a> </td> <td>Indo-Europeans </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Zok_language" title="Zok language">Zok dialect</a> </td> <td>Armenians </td> <td>Armenian Apostolic </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hemshin_people" title="Hemshin people">Hemshins</a> </td> <td>150,000–200,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hem%C5%9Fin" title="Hemşin">Hemshin</a> </td> <td>Indo-Europeans </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Homshetsi_dialect" title="Homshetsi dialect">Homshetsi dialect</a> </td> <td>Armenians </td> <td>Armenian Apostolic in Georgia, Russia <p>Sunni Islam in Turkey </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pontic_Greeks" title="Pontic Greeks">Pontic Greeks</a> </td> <td>2,000,000–2,500,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pontus_(region)" title="Pontus (region)">Pontus</a> </td> <td>Indo-Europeans </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pontic_Greek" title="Pontic Greek">Pontic Greek</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greeks" title="Greeks">Greeks</a> </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity in Greece <p>Sunni Islam in Turkey </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Urums" title="Urums">Urums</a> </td> <td>192,700 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a> </td> <td>Indo-Europeans </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Urum_language" title="Urum language">Urum</a> </td> <td>Greeks </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ossetians" title="Ossetians">Ossetians</a> </td> <td>700,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ossetia" title="Ossetia">Ossetia</a> </td> <td>Indo-Europeans </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ossetian_language" title="Ossetian language">Ossetian</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Iranian_peoples" title="Iranian peoples">Iranians</a> </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity <p><a href="/wiki/Assianism" title="Assianism">Uatsdin</a> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Digor_people" title="Digor people">Digors</a> </td> <td>100,000 </td> <td>Ossetia </td> <td>Indo-Europeans </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Digor_dialect" class="mw-redirect" title="Digor dialect">Digor dialect</a> </td> <td>Iranians </td> <td>Sunni Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Iron_people" title="Iron people">Irons</a> </td> <td>200,000 </td> <td>Ossetia </td> <td>Indo-Europeans </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Iron_dialect" class="mw-redirect" title="Iron dialect">Iron dialect</a> </td> <td>Iranians </td> <td>Orthodox Christianity </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Talysh_people" title="Talysh people">Talyshs</a> </td> <td>1,200,000–2,000,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Talish_(region)" title="Talish (region)">Talyshistan</a> </td> <td>Indo-Europeans </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Talysh_language" title="Talysh language">Talysh</a> </td> <td>Iranians </td> <td>Sunni Islam in Iran <p>Shia Islam in Azerbaijan </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tat_people_(Caucasus)" title="Tat people (Caucasus)">Tats</a> </td> <td>100,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shirvan" title="Shirvan">Shirvan</a> </td> <td>Indo-Europeans </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tat_language_(Caucasus)" title="Tat language (Caucasus)">Tat</a> </td> <td>Iranians </td> <td>Shia Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Caucasian_Kurds" title="Caucasian Kurds">Caucasian</a> <p><a href="/wiki/Caucasian_Kurds" title="Caucasian Kurds">Kurds</a> </p> </td> <td>162,742 </td> <td>Predominantly <p><a href="/wiki/South_Caucasus" title="South Caucasus">Transcaucasia</a> </p> </td> <td>Indo-Europeans </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kurdish_language" title="Kurdish language">Kurdish</a> </td> <td>Iranians </td> <td>Shia Islam </td></tr> <tr> <td>Caucasian <p><a href="/wiki/Yazidis" title="Yazidis">Yazidis</a> </p> </td> <td>43,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ararat_Plain" title="Ararat Plain">Ararat plain</a> </td> <td>Indo-Europeans </td> <td>Kurdish </td> <td>Iranians </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Yazidism" title="Yazidism">Yazidism</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Assyrians</a> </td> <td>35,000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Assyrians_in_Armenia" title="Assyrians in Armenia">Armenia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Assyrians_in_Georgia" title="Assyrians in Georgia">Georgia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages" title="Afroasiatic languages">Afroasiatic people</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Aramaic_languages" title="Eastern Aramaic languages">Eastern Aramaic</a> </td> <td><a 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style="width:6em;right:5px"><div><a href="/wiki/Laks_(Caucasus)" title="Laks (Caucasus)">Laks</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:40.465%;left:66.353%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Dargins"><img alt="Dargins" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/8px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/12px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/16px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div><a href="/wiki/Dargins" title="Dargins">Dargins</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:25.33%;left:56.843%;font-size:110%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Chechens"><img alt="Chechens" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/8px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/12px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/16px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;top:5px;left:-3em"><div><a href="/wiki/Chechens" title="Chechens">Chechens</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:28.154%;left:68.267%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Kumyks"><img alt="Kumyks" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Dot-yellow.svg/8px-Dot-yellow.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Dot-yellow.svg/12px-Dot-yellow.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Dot-yellow.svg/16px-Dot-yellow.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div><a href="/wiki/Kumyks" title="Kumyks">Kumyks</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:23.642%;left:62.121%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Ku"><img alt="Ku" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Dot-yellow.svg/8px-Dot-yellow.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Dot-yellow.svg/12px-Dot-yellow.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Dot-yellow.svg/16px-Dot-yellow.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div>Ku</div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:37.33%;left:74.099%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Ku"><img alt="Ku" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Dot-yellow.svg/8px-Dot-yellow.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Dot-yellow.svg/12px-Dot-yellow.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Dot-yellow.svg/16px-Dot-yellow.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div>Ku</div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:48.472%;left:70.591%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Lezgins"><img alt="Lezgins" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/8px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/12px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/16px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div><a href="/wiki/Lezgins" title="Lezgins">Lezgins</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:41.974%;left:75.496%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="(Derbent)"><img alt="(Derbent)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div>(Derbent)</div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:50.28%;left:81.698%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Azerbaijanis"><img alt="Azerbaijanis" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Dot-yellow.svg/8px-Dot-yellow.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Dot-yellow.svg/12px-Dot-yellow.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Dot-yellow.svg/16px-Dot-yellow.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijanis" title="Azerbaijanis">Azerbaijanis</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:67.19%;left:89.917%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Tats"><img alt="Tats" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Blue-circle.png/8px-Blue-circle.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Blue-circle.png/12px-Blue-circle.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Blue-circle.png/16px-Blue-circle.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="100" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;bottom:5px;left:-3em"><div><a href="/wiki/Tat_people_(Caucasus)" title="Tat people (Caucasus)">Tats</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:58.118%;left:81.975%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Tats"><img alt="Tats" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Blue-circle.png/8px-Blue-circle.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Blue-circle.png/12px-Blue-circle.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Blue-circle.png/16px-Blue-circle.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="100" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div>Tats</div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:91.896%;left:81.836%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Talysh people"><img alt="Talysh people" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Blue-circle.png/8px-Blue-circle.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Blue-circle.png/12px-Blue-circle.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Blue-circle.png/16px-Blue-circle.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="100" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;top:5px;left:-3em"><div><a href="/wiki/Talysh_people" title="Talysh people">Talysh people</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:51.567%;left:62.577%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Tsk"><img alt="Tsk" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/8px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/12px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/16px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div><a href="/wiki/Elisu_Sultanate" title="Elisu Sultanate">Tsk</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:51.035%;left:64.695%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Av"><img alt="Av" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/8px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/12px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/16px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;bottom:5px;left:-3em"><div><a href="/wiki/Djaro-Belokani" class="mw-redirect" title="Djaro-Belokani">Av</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:57.651%;left:68.672%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Udi"><img alt="Udi" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Red_dot.svg/8px-Red_dot.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Red_dot.svg/12px-Red_dot.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Red_dot.svg/16px-Red_dot.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div><a href="/wiki/Udi_people" title="Udi people">Udi</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:70.32%;left:73.724%;font-size:120%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Azerbaijanis"><img alt="Azerbaijanis" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/8px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/12px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/16px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;top:5px;left:-3em"><div style="background-color:yellow"><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijanis" title="Azerbaijanis">Azerbaijanis</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:78.55%;left:63.017%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Arm"><img alt="Arm" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Point_carte.svg/8px-Point_carte.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Point_carte.svg/12px-Point_carte.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Point_carte.svg/16px-Point_carte.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="8" data-file-height="8" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;bottom:5px;left:-3em"><div><a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Arm</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:72.026%;left:43.549%;font-size:120%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Armenians"><img alt="Armenians" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Point_carte.svg/8px-Point_carte.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Point_carte.svg/12px-Point_carte.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Point_carte.svg/16px-Point_carte.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="8" data-file-height="8" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;bottom:5px;left:-3em"><div><a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:64.042%;left:59.42%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Arm"><img alt="Arm" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Point_carte.svg/8px-Point_carte.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Point_carte.svg/12px-Point_carte.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Point_carte.svg/16px-Point_carte.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="8" data-file-height="8" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;top:5px;left:-3em"><div><a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Arm</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:85.661%;left:51.344%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Az"><img alt="Az" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Dot-yellow.svg/8px-Dot-yellow.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Dot-yellow.svg/12px-Dot-yellow.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Dot-yellow.svg/16px-Dot-yellow.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;bottom:5px;left:-3em"><div>Az</div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:74.827%;left:52.073%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Kurds"><img alt="Kurds" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/8px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/12px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/16px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div><a href="/wiki/Kurds" title="Kurds">Kurds</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:98.369%;left:30.841%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="↓ Assyrians"><img alt="↓ Assyrians" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/8px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/12px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/16px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div style="background-color:white">↓ <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_people" title="Assyrian people">Assyrians</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:48.023%;left:45.813%;font-size:110%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Georgians"><img alt="Georgians" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/8px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/12px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/16px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div style="background-color:pink"><a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:44.073%;left:51.895%;font-size:110%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Georgians"><img alt="Georgians" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/8px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/12px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/16px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:5px"><div style="background-color:pink"><a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:37.401%;left:19.629%;font-size:110%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Georgians"><img alt="Georgians" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/8px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/12px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/16px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div style="background-color:pink"><a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:29.16%;left:31.005%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Svaneti"><img alt="Svaneti" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Solid_blue.svg/8px-Solid_blue.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Solid_blue.svg/12px-Solid_blue.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Solid_blue.svg/16px-Solid_blue.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;top:5px;left:-3em"><div><a href="/wiki/Svaneti" title="Svaneti">Svaneti</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:26.933%;left:14.254%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Abkhazians"><img alt="Abkhazians" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Map_pointer.svg/8px-Map_pointer.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" 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/></span></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:5px"><div><a href="/wiki/Laz_people" title="Laz people">Laz</a></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:64.951%;left:31.323%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="(Kars)"><img alt="(Kars)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:5px"><div>(<a href="/wiki/Kars" title="Kars">Kars</a>)</div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:73.976%;left:12.911%;font-size:120%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Turks"><img alt="Turks" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/8px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/12px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Location_dot_clear.svg/16px-Location_dot_clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div>Turks</div></div></div></div><div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Caucasus_topo_map-blank.svg" title="File:Caucasus topo map-blank.svg">class=notpageimage| </a></div><b>Homeland of peoples of the Caucasus</b><br />Abbreviations: mouseover for name</div></div></div> <p>This gives ethnic locations about 1775 before the Russians came.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> NECLS means '<a href="/wiki/Northeast_Caucasian_languages" title="Northeast Caucasian languages">Northeast Caucasian</a> Language Speakers' and NWCLS means '<a href="/wiki/Northwest_Caucasian_languages" title="Northwest Caucasian languages">Northwest Caucasian</a> 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 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. </p><p><b>Northern Lowlands:</b> The Turkic-speaking <a href="/wiki/Nogais" title="Nogais">Nogai</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Kalmyks" title="Kalmyks">Kalmyks</a> – Buddhist Mongols who migrated from <a href="/wiki/Dzungaria" title="Dzungaria">Dzungaria</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Terek_Cossacks" title="Terek Cossacks">Terek Cossacks</a>. Their settlements later grew into the North Caucasus Line. There were a few <a href="/wiki/Turkmens" title="Turkmens">Turkmens</a> in the center of the steppe. </p><p><b>North Slope:</b> The western two thirds was occupied by <a href="/wiki/Circassians" title="Circassians">Circassians</a> – NWCLS divided into twelve or so tribes. They long resisted the Russians and in 1864 several hundred thousand of them were expelled to the Ottoman Empire. To their east were the <a href="/wiki/Kabardians" title="Kabardians">Kabardians</a> – NWCLS similar to the Circassians but with a different political organization. The term Lesser Kabardia refers to the eastern area. South of the eastern Circassian-Kabardians were three groups that seem to have been driven into the high mountains about 500 years previously. The <a href="/wiki/Karachays" title="Karachays">Karachays</a> and <a href="/wiki/Balkars" title="Balkars">Balkars</a> spoke similar Turkic languages. East of the Balkars were the <a href="/wiki/Ossetians" title="Ossetians">Ossetians</a> – Iranian speakers descended from the ancient Alans who controlled the future <a href="/wiki/Georgian_Military_Road" title="Georgian Military Road">Georgian Military Road</a> and had a growing Christian minority. East of the future highway was a north-south band of <a href="/wiki/Ingush_people" title="Ingush people">Ingush</a> – NECLS similar to the Chechens. The numerous <a href="/wiki/Chechens" title="Chechens">Chechens</a> to the east were later to wage the long <a href="/wiki/Murid_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Murid War">Murid War</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Kumyks" title="Kumyks">Kumyks</a>. </p><p><b>Mountain Dagestan:</b> All the peoples of mountain Dagestan were NECLS except the <a href="/wiki/Tat_people_(Caucasus)" title="Tat people (Caucasus)">Tats</a>. In the northwest were a number of small language groups (<a href="/wiki/Tsez_people" title="Tsez people">Tsez people</a> (Dido) and <a href="/wiki/Andi_people" title="Andi people">Andi people</a>), similar to the Avars. To their southeast were the numerous <a href="/wiki/Avars_(Caucasus)" title="Avars (Caucasus)">Avars</a> with a khanate at <a href="/wiki/Khunzakh" title="Khunzakh">Khunzakh</a> who fought in the Murid War. Southeast were the <a href="/wiki/Dargins" title="Dargins">Dargins</a> and west of them the <a href="/wiki/Laks_(Caucasus)" title="Laks (Caucasus)">Laks</a> who held the Kumukh Khanate. Southeast along the <a href="/wiki/Samur_(river)" title="Samur (river)">Samur</a> were the <a href="/wiki/Lezgins" title="Lezgins">Lezgins</a> with many subgroups and then the Iranian-speaking <a href="/wiki/Tat_people_(Caucasus)" title="Tat people (Caucasus)">Tats</a> down to Baku. </p><p><b>Caspian Coast:</b> From Astrakhan to the Terek River there were the Buddhist <a href="/wiki/Kalmyks" title="Kalmyks">Kalmyk</a> nomads. Along the Terek were the isolated <a href="/wiki/Terek_Cossacks" title="Terek Cossacks">Terek Cossacks</a>. From the Terek to <a href="/wiki/Derbent" title="Derbent">Derbent</a> were the Turkic-speaking <a href="/wiki/Kumyks" title="Kumyks">Kumyks</a> with a state at <a href="/wiki/Tarki" title="Tarki">Tarki</a>. The town of Derbent itself had a majority <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Persian</a> (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">персы</span>) population, as it had for many centuries, until the late 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the coastal plain south of Derbent was a mixed population, mostly Azeri ("Transcaucasian Tatar"), and further south to Baku were the Iranian-speaking <a href="/wiki/Tat_people_(Caucasus)" title="Tat people (Caucasus)">Tats</a>. When Baku became a boom town the Tats retained a majority only in the mountains. The <a href="/wiki/Mountain_Jews" title="Mountain Jews">Mountain Jews</a>, who had a number of villages inland from the coast, spoke a form of Tat called <a href="/wiki/Judeo-Tat" title="Judeo-Tat">Judeo-Tat</a>. The lowlands south of Baku were held by <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijanis" title="Azerbaijanis">Azerbaijanis</a>, Turkic-speaking Shiites. On both sides of the current Iranian border were the Iranian-speaking <a href="/wiki/Talysh_people" title="Talysh people">Talysh</a>. Based on genetic studies the <a href="/wiki/Gilaks" title="Gilaks">Gilaki</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mazanderani_people" title="Mazanderani people">Mazanderani</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Gilaks" title="Gilaks">Gilaki</a> and Mazanderani ethnic groups are people that immigrated from the Caucasus region to what is now northern Iran.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>South Slope:</b> 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 <a href="/wiki/Abkhazians" title="Abkhazians">Abkhazians</a> – similar to the Circassians but under Georgian influence. </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Svans" title="Svans">Svans</a> were Georgian mountaineers. In the center the Iranian <a href="/wiki/South_Ossetia" title="South Ossetia">Ossets</a> 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: <a href="/wiki/Khevi" title="Khevi">Khevi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Khevsureti" title="Khevsureti">Khevsurs</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tushetians" title="Tushetians">Tushetians</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Bats_people" title="Bats people">Bats</a> were NECLS entangled with the Tushetians and the <a href="/wiki/Kists" class="mw-redirect" title="Kists">Kists</a> were Chechens south of the mountains. Near the Georgian-Azeri linguistic border there were some Avars and <a href="/wiki/Tsakhur_people" title="Tsakhur people">Tsakhurs</a> (Lezgians) who had crossed the mountains. Associated with the Tsakhurs were the <a href="/wiki/Ingiloy" class="mw-redirect" title="Ingiloy">Ingiloy</a> or Georgian-speaking Muslims. In the north Azeri area were a few <a href="/wiki/Udi_people" title="Udi people">Udis</a> or southern Lezgians and Lakhij or southern Tats. </p><p><b>Southern Lowlands:</b> The western two thirds were occupied by <a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a> – an ancient Christian people with a unique language. The eastern third was <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijanis" title="Azerbaijanis">Azerbaijanis</a> – a group of Turkic-speaking Shiites under Persian influence. On the fringe of the Georgian area were Georgian speakers who had either adopted Islam or mountain customs. </p><p><b>Armenian Highlands:</b> Further South, the land becomes higher. In the west were the <a href="/wiki/Laz_people" title="Laz people">Laz people</a> or Georgian Muslims. In Kars province there were Turks, Kurds and Armenians. The <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a>, which gave the plateau its namesake, were somewhat concentrated in the present-day <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Kurds" title="Kurds">Kurds</a> 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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Genetic_history">Genetic history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethnic_groups_in_the_Caucasus&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Genetic history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_Caucasus#Genetic_history" title="Prehistoric Caucasus">Prehistoric Caucasus § Genetic history</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Y-DNA_haplogroups_in_populations_of_the_Caucasus" title="Y-DNA haplogroups in populations of the Caucasus">Y-DNA haplogroups in populations of the Caucasus</a></div> <p>Language groups in the Caucasus are closely correlated to genetic ancestry.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to a 2021 study, <a href="/wiki/Caucasus_hunter-gatherer" title="Caucasus hunter-gatherer">Caucasian hunter-gatherer ancestry (CHG)</a> 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 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-<a href="/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum" title="Last Glacial Maximum">Last Glacial Maximum</a> period explains the presence of these alleles.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethnic_groups_in_the_Caucasus&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid 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id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethnic_groups_in_the_Caucasus&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output 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Journal of Human Evolution.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=V.P.Alekseev&rft.atitle=The+morphological+specificity+of+Caucasian+peoples+according+to+craniological+materials&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fpii%2FS0047248482800535&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEthnic+groups+in+the+Caucasus" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Kovalevskaia, V. B "Central Ciscaucasia in Antiquity and Early Middle Ages: Caucasian Substratum and Migrations of the Iranic-Speaking Tribes." 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