Are Georgians culturally closer to Armenians or to North Caucasians?

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Originally Posted by klarji

Heil Hitlerashvili
Are you sure?

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Sieg Heilidze

Certainly

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Originally Posted by Root

Sieg Heilidze

Certainly

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Ч1ара ч1ога мерза бу :rolleyes:;)

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Originally Posted by Root

Sieg Heilidze

Certainly

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Ч1ара ч1ога мерза бу :rolleyes:;)

Also, the South Caucasus is region were states were founded in very ancient times since Colchis.
While in the North Caucasus there were no states but tibal unions even till Russian came
So Georgians Armenians and Azerbaijanians have much more common as national ethnoses.
As Christians Georgians and Armenians are closer. Also Ossetians Abkhazians.
What's about folk culture Ossetians and Abkahzians are closer to Muslim North Caucasians.
Georgians are much more isolated but their folk culture is more close to NCaucasians then to Armenians or Azerbaijanis.

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Originally Posted by klarji

While in the North Caucasus there were no states but tibal unions even till Russian came

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At least there was Alanian kingdom in North Caucasus:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ania_10_12.png

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Originally Posted by Rumata

At least there was Alanian kingdom in North Caucasus:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ania_10_12.png

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Good work in "paint"
Alans were ar this time halfly nomad
Their Kingdom was more then tribe but not Kingdom in modern meaning.
When Mongols defeated then they migrated to Europe and Caucasus mountains
It was like Hun or Khazar Kingdoms. They were united for little time. But did not have historical traditions of being state.

Never met North Caucasians personally.
During my trip to Armenia I witnessed a really mutual animosity between Armenians and Georgians, although I don't know where it originates from. In case of cultural Armenian and Georgian similarity that weird phenomenon would not be existent. I may be mistaken though.

Armenians. Animosity is irrelevant, lot of similar people have great animosity between themselfves.

South Caucasians are closer to each other than to North Caucasians overall.

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Originally Posted by Scarface F

Armenians. Animosity is irrelevant, lot of similar people have great animosity between themselfves.

South Caucasians are closer to each other than to North Caucasians overall.

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Armenians are as far from Georgians in terms of traditions, culture and mentality as the North Caucasians. It’s just that here on the forum they like to talk about some great similarity between Armenians and Georgians (I don’t know where this came from), but this is not true at all. Even one Russian traveler of the 19th century, who was in Georgia, wrote about the complete dissimilarity and differences between Georgians and Armenians. This difference between Georgians and Armenians is even more visible in the west of Georgia (where Georgians make up 100% of the population), in the mountains in the northeast and in the villages of Kakheti, where only Georgians live and the old customs and traditions are still alive. I myself have never noticed any particular similarity. It’s the same with the Azerbaijanis.

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Originally Posted by Scarface F

Armenians. Animosity is irrelevant, lot of similar people have great animosity between themselfves.

South Caucasians are closer to each other than to North Caucasians overall.

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I would say that even Balkans dance and music have more similarities with Armenia, than Georgians have.
This is Macedonian music, this kind of sounds in Georgia would be recognized as something Armenian, Azeri or Kurdish.
https://youtu.be/3KgLRTLZqa4?si=rfGAAKhrTPzZA3bN

And this is Georgian sounds, if anything in this world can be called Caucasian, this is Georgia :)

https://youtu.be/fgdHh2aIFXE?si=6FQI1BP2zZY0siDk