Among Eastern Georgians there are a lot of people whose mother, grandmother or great-grandmother is Armenian. They mixed quite actively with them. There are also quite a few simply former Armenians, that is, assimilated, who took Georgian surnames, for example Somekhishvili, which means Child of an Armenian. And in general, there are a lot of Armenians living in Georgia, especially near Tbilisi, and in the 18th century, when the Georgian population of Tbilisi was massacred by Aga Mohammed Khan, there was a massive influx of Armenians there. They mixed with Azerbaijanis less often, but it also happens, for example, I have about five Georgian friends whose mothers are Azerbaijani. But there are more conservative residents in the east who do not mix under any circumstances, but such people often live in villages and are quite unfriendly and conservative people. I, I want to say, among the indigenous eastern Georgians, whose ancestors lived near the cities, there are quite a few mixed people, so the southeast is a bad place, where I think there is almost nothing Georgian. Only the west and northeast have preserved original Georgia.
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