Cheveneburi means "ours" in Georgian, an ethnic identity for Georgian people who live in the territory of the Republic of Turkey. The Georgians (ქართველი ერი (Kartveli Eri) or ქართველები (Kartvelebi) in the Georgian language) are a nation or an ethnic group, originating in the Caucasus. ...

History

Georgian is spoken by some 50.000 people in Borçka and the northern (Meydancık-İmerhevi) half of Şavşat (Shavsheti) districts and in individual villages in Artvin province. Some descendants of Georgian refugees of Russo-Turkish war in 1877, in the Ünye and Ordu areas, also speak it. Georgian speaking migrants from Artvin, in İzmit and Bursa provinces in Western Turkey, probably outnumber those who remain at home. Total number of Georgians living in Turkey is more than 1,5 mil. Artvin is a city in north-eastern Turkey. ... Ordu is a port city in Turkey. ... Ä°zmit (also known as Kocaeli; previously known as Ismid or Isnikmid) is a city in the northwestern part of Anatolia, Turkey. ... Bursa (formerly known as Brusa or Prusa) is the capital of the Bursa Province in northwestern Turkey. ...

Sample Words

• Kartuli itzi? - Do you speak?
• Rawai khar? - How are you?
• Garga var, sağol. - I'm fine thank you.
• Dğe darosi rawa ya? - How's the weather?
• Sakheli rakhkwi ya? - What's your name?

See also

• Ajarians
• Greek Muslims
• Pomaks
• Pontian Greeks
• Hamshenis
• Gagauz
• Torbesh

Official language Georgian Capital Batumi ISO code GE.AJ Head of the Government Levan Varshalomidze Area  - Total  - % water 2,900 km² n/a Population  - Total (1989)  - Density 392,432 135. ... The term refers to a religious minority in western Thrace, in north-east Greece. ... Pomaks can mean: Muslim Bulgarians, the descendants of Bulgarian Christians who converted to Islam under the Ottomans. ... The Pontian Greeks are Greeks from the shores of the Black Sea, the Pontus. ... Hamsheni elder from BaÅŸ HemÅŸin Hamshenis (Turkish HemÅŸinli(ler)) are a distinct ethnic group (of Armenian origin) in the Black Sea region of Turkey. ... The Gagauz are a Turkic people minority of southern Moldova (in Gagauzia) and of southwestern Ukraine (in Budjak) that numbers around 250,000. ... The Torbesh are a Muslim Slav Macedonian peoples. ...

References

• Black Sea: Encyclopedic Dictionary (Özhan Öztürk. Karadeniz: Ansiklopedik Sözlük. 2. Cilt. Heyamola Publishing. Istanbul. 2005. ISBN 975-6121-00-9.)

Map of the Black Sea. ... Özhan Öztürk, 2005 Turkish folklorist, writer (b. ...

Internet Resources

• Çeveneburi
• Kolkha
• Karalahana.com
• Maçaheli