Georgians
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The Georgians, or Kartvelians, are a nation and Caucasian ethnic group native to present-day Georgia and surrounding areas historically associated with the Georgian kingdoms. Significant Georgian dias
Georgian kings and queens consort depicted on a Byzantine-influenced fresco wearing Byzantine dress at the Gelati Monastery, UNESCO's World Heritage Site landmark.
Georgians presenting gifts to Emperor Romanos III Argyros. The Skylitzes Chronicle.
Georgian patriot and anti-Soviet campaigner Leo Kereselidze holding a traditional dagger, historically one of the key accessories of Georgian male attire.
Georgian has been written in its own unique alphabet since the early 5th century.
Kartvelian languages
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The Kartvelian languages, also known as South Caucasian or Kartvelic languages, are a language family indigenous to the South Caucasus and spoken primarily in Georgia. There are approximately 5 millio
Georgians
…United States, and the European Union. Georgians are ethno-linguistically separate from all of their neighboring nations and primarily speak Georgian, a Kartvelian language with no known relation to any other language family in the world. Georgians arose from Colchian and Iberian civilizations of classical antiquity; Colchis…
Proposed Kartvelian evolution showing wildlife with reconstructed proto-Kartvelian names (black areas); past societies (HG: Hunter-gatherers, N: Neolithic, CA: Copper Age, BA: Bronze Age, IA: Iron Age); and major rivers in whose watersheds extant Kartvelian languages evolved (colored lines). KBP means millennia before 1950.
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