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Meskheti is a mountainous area and a former province in southwestern Georgia
Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
. The ancient Georgian tribes of Meskhi
Meskhetians

Meskhetian Turks, also known as Muslim Meskhetians, or simply Meskhetians are the former Turkish people inhabitants of Meskheti , along the border with Turkey....
 (or Moschi
Moschi

Moschi or Moschoi is a term from ancient records and may refer to one of the following peoples:*Mushki were an Iron Age people of Anatolia, known from Assyrian sources....
) and Mosiniks were the indigenous population of this region, identified by some authors with the Mushki
Mushki

The Mushki were an Iron Age people of Anatolia, known from Assyrian sources. They do not appear in Hittites records. Several authors have connected them with the Moschoi of Greek sources and the Georgian tribe of the Meskhetians....
 known from 12th century BC Assyrian sources. A majority of the modern Georgian population (Meskhs) of Meskheti are descendants of these ancient tribes. The Mosiniks (or Mossynoeci
Mossynoeci

Mossynoeci . The Greeks of the Euxine Sea applied it to the peoples of Pontus, the northern Anatolian coast west of Trebizond.Herodotus...
) were one of the inventors of iron metallurgy.






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Meskheti is a mountainous area and a former province in southwestern Georgia
Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
. The ancient Georgian tribes of Meskhi
Meskhetians

Meskhetian Turks, also known as Muslim Meskhetians, or simply Meskhetians are the former Turkish people inhabitants of Meskheti , along the border with Turkey....
 (or Moschi
Moschi

Moschi or Moschoi is a term from ancient records and may refer to one of the following peoples:*Mushki were an Iron Age people of Anatolia, known from Assyrian sources....
) and Mosiniks were the indigenous population of this region, identified by some authors with the Mushki
Mushki

The Mushki were an Iron Age people of Anatolia, known from Assyrian sources. They do not appear in Hittites records. Several authors have connected them with the Moschoi of Greek sources and the Georgian tribe of the Meskhetians....
 known from 12th century BC Assyrian sources. A majority of the modern Georgian population (Meskhs) of Meskheti are descendants of these ancient tribes. The Mosiniks (or Mossynoeci
Mossynoeci

Mossynoeci . The Greeks of the Euxine Sea applied it to the peoples of Pontus, the northern Anatolian coast west of Trebizond.Herodotus...
) were one of the inventors of iron metallurgy. In the 2nd millennium
2nd millennium BC

The 2nd millennium BC marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age.Its first half is dominated by the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and Babylonia....
-4th century BC Meskheti was a part of the Georgian Kingdom of Diaokhi, in the 4th century BC-6th century AD - part of the Kingdom of Iberia
Caucasian Iberia

Iberia , also known as Iveria , was a name given by the ancient Ancient Greece and Roman Empire to the ancient Georgia kingdom of Kartli corresponding roughly to the eastern and southern parts of the present day Georgia....
. In the 10th-15th centuries this region was a part of the united Georgian Kingdom. In the 16th century Meskheti was occupied and annexed by the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
. In 1829-1917 the region was a part of Tbilisi
Tbilisi

Tbilisi , is the capital city and the largest city of Georgia , lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form Tpilisi and it was officially known as ?????? in Russian, until 1936....
 Province (Tiflisskaia Gubernia), in 1918-1921 part of the Democratic Republic of Georgia
Democratic Republic of Georgia

The Democratic Republic of Georgia , 1918?1921, was the first modern establishment of a Republic of Georgia .The DRG was created after the collapse of the Russian Empire that began with the Russian Revolution of 1917....
, and in 1921-1990 part of the Georgian SSR
Georgian SSR

The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Georgian SSR for short, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union that made up the former Soviet Union....
. Since 1990 Meskheti (Samtskhe-Javakheti
Samtskhe-Javakheti

Meskheti-Javakheti is a region in southern Georgia , with Akhaltsikhe as its capital. Samtskhe-Javakheti comprises six administrative districts: Akhaltsikhe, Adigeni, Aspindza, Borjomi, Akhalkalaki and Ninotsminda....
 region) has been a province of the Republic of Georgia
Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
.

See also

  • Shota Rustaveli
    Shota Rustaveli

    Shota Rustaveli was a Georgia poet of the 12th century, and the greatest classic of Georgian secular literature. He is author of "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" , the Georgian national epic poetry....
  • History of Georgia
    History of Georgia (country)

    The history of Georgia began with the rise of the early Georgian states of Colchis and Caucasian Iberia, which in Circa1000 BC formed the Georgian civilization and achieved its renaissance and golden age in the twelfth through thirteenth centuries....
  • Culture of Georgia
    Culture of Georgia

    The Georgia n culture has evolved over the country's long history, providing it with a unique national culture and a strong literary tradition based on the Georgian language and alphabet....
  • Georgians
    Georgians

    The Georgians are a nation and ethnic group originating in the Caucasus, the oldest group of the South Caucasian peoples people mainly centered in Georgia , but also living in Turkey, Russia, the United States, Iran, and other countries....
  • Meskhetian Turks