Laz people

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Round dances have in Kartvelian culture ritual religious character
There in the archaic Northern Georgia are still pagan "Ferkhuli" performed only by men



something like this have Chechens and Ingushians but mixed with modern Muslim culture called "Zikr"
It is not recognized in pure Islam and is known as pagan relict

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Here is Adjarian "Khorumi"
Adjarians are neighbour Meskhian group
Its said they are a lot mixed with Lazes
Pure Samtskhe Meskhians, treir culture, traditions etc are closer to Karts

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Laz youth in Turkey, Laz song

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Laz dance (Georgian choreography with theatrical elements. Real folk dance begins at the end, at 2 : 30)

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Laz mourning



Music mournings were very popular in Kartvelian culture
They are still popular among archaic Kart groups living far away from Lazes, in the East Georgia mountains and Svan people

Kart mourning from Pshavi region



Kartian mourning, Tusheti region



Svan mourning, "Zari"



Mingrelian (Christian Laz) lament

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Christian Laz from Georgian Mingrelia talking with Muslim Lazes in Turkey Lazistan

Zan tribes were divided by neighbour Meskhians when they migrated to the Black Sea from the mountains in the first half of the Middle ages

Though Mingrelians and Lazes still understand each other
Between them now live Meskhified Gurian group with Kart language but Zan (Laz) substratum in their dialect
In the last time from the mountains also come down pure Meskhian group -Adjarians

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"Lazes are heroic people" - Georgian Patriarch Ilia II
"There is said we Mokhevians are also of Laz origin."

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Kurdistan like in Turkey Lazistan is popular socialism ideology

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Typical Mingrelian grandma



And here is typical Laz granma at 11:00



They both - Lazes/Mingrelians - have specific appearance - oftenly blue eyed/white Pontids with Caucasian sharp features thin but long hook noses

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Georgians singing Laz song in Kartvelian style (Georgians how I said dont like Turkic foreign influence in Laz folk culture)