Georgian borscht

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Caucasian ethnic group native to Georgia and the South Caucasus. Thereafter and throughout the early modern period, Georgians became politically fractured and were dominated by the Ottoman Empire and successive dynasties of Iran. The Georgian nation was formed out of a diverse set of geographic subgroups, each with its characteristic traditions, manners, dialects and, in the case of Svans and Mingrelians, own regional languages. Saint George popular among the Georgians, whether pagan or Christian.

The term “Georgians” is derived from the country of Georgia. In the past, lore-based theories were given by the medieval French traveller Jacques de Vitry, who explained the name’s origin by the popularity of St. Most historians and scholars of Georgia as well as anthropologists, archaeologists, and linguists tend to agree that the ancestors of modern Georgians inhabited the southern Caucasus and northern Anatolia since the Neolithic period. The Georgian people in antiquity have been known to the ancient Greeks and Romans as Colchians and Iberians. According to the renowned scholar of the Caucasian studies Cyril Toumanoff, the Moschians also were one of the early proto-Georgian tribes which were integrated into the first early Georgian state of Iberia. Diauehi in Assyrian sources and Taochi in Greek lived in the northeastern part of Anatolia.