CAUCASIA: AN ETNO-CULTURAL HISTORY ANALYSIS

Year 2010, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 19 - 50, 01.06.2010

Ergin Ayan

Abstract

Today we can not see a pure ethnic or cultural structure in Caucasia. Different types of human groups in Caucasia is a result of the mixture between outsiders and local ethnic groups. Even those groups in Caucasia mixed together they couldn’t be able to build a homogenous culture because of ethnic group consciousness and religieux differentness. We can observe three sets of human groups in Caucasia: Turk originated groups, Christians and non-Turkish Muslims. Caucasian folks shared same geography, similar historical, ethnic and socio-cultural conditions for centuries, so they affected each other and became relative groups that combined around Caucasian culture. At this point of view Caucasian folks have a lot of differencies from Transcaucasian folks such as culture and sociological structure

Keywords

Caucasia, Skyth, Khazar, Indo-European, Altaic.

KAFKASYA: BİR ETNO-KÜLTÜREL TARİH ÇÖZÜMLEMESİ

Abstract

Keywords

Kafkasya, İskit, Hazar, İndo-Avrupalı, Altaylı