Lazistan

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geographical region historical region

Lazistan is a historical coastal region along the southeastern Black Sea, traditionally inhabited by the Laz people and now largely within northeastern Turkey and parts of Georgia.

Aliases (1)

Turkey (Caucasus region) ×1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographical region → historical region →
administrativeStatus	sanjak in the Ottoman Empire →
associatedCulture	Laz culture →
associatedPeople	Laz →
associatedReligion	Eastern Orthodox Christianity → Sunni Islam →
borders	Black Sea →
climate	humid subtropical →
coastalOn	Black Sea →
countryNow	Georgia → Turkey →
crossBorderRegion	true →
culturalRegionOf	Laz people →
ethnicGroup	Laz people →
historicalInhabitants	Armenians → Laz → Pontic Greeks →
historicalLanguage	Laz language →
historicalLanguageFamily	Kartvelian languages →
historicalNameLanguage	Ottoman Turkish →
historicalSignificance	center of Laz ethnic settlement →
knownFor	hazelnut production → tea cultivation in modern era →
locatedIn	northeastern Turkey → southeastern Black Sea coast → western Georgia →
locatedInContinent	Asia → Europe →
locatedOn	Black Sea coast →
modernStatus	no longer an official administrative unit →
nameEtymology	derived from the ethnonym "Laz" →
overlapsWith	Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey →
partOf	Pontus region →
presentInModernCountry	Georgia → Republic of Turkey →
presentInModernRegion	Adjara → Artvin Province → Rize Province → Trabzon Province →
regionOf	Laz people →
regionType	coastal region →
terrain	mountainous coastal belt →
timePeriod	Ottoman era →
traditionalInhabitants	Laz people →
usedAsNameBy	Ottoman Empire →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Laz people →	historicalRegion
Caucasian languages (areal grouping) ("Turkey (Caucasus region)") →	spokenIn