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mahratt · 11th July 2022, 01:19 PM

We all know that weapons "travel" very easily. For example, in the last topic, participants posted photos of Pontic Greeks with Laz Bichak.
If you carefully read the article, then there is such information: "The Lazistan sanjak included: Batum, Lower and Upper Adjara, Machakheli, Gonio, Hopa, Arkhave, Hemshin, Atina." That is, to put it simply, at that moment Adjara is part of Lazistan.

"A large center for the production of weapons was in Trebizond, located in central Lazistan, not so far from the Adjara-Guria center for the production of weapons. This center of production must be mentioned in our study, also because most of the craftsmen in Trebizond were Laz. This was directly mentioned in 1837 by the English officer Douglas Stevens, who visited the border territories of the Ottoman and Russian empires for the purpose of intelligence. First he visited the regions of Western Georgia, and then Lazistan"

So it's not worth "reinvent the wheel" coming up with a new name, instead of the quite appropriate "Laz Bichak"

11th July 2022, 01:19 PM	#2
mahratt Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Russia Posts: 1,042	We all know that weapons "travel" very easily. For example, in the last topic, participants posted photos of Pontic Greeks with Laz Bichak. If you carefully read the article, then there is such information: "The Lazistan sanjak included: Batum, Lower and Upper Adjara, Machakheli, Gonio, Hopa, Arkhave, Hemshin, Atina." That is, to put it simply, at that moment Adjara is part of Lazistan. "A large center for the production of weapons was in Trebizond, located in central Lazistan, not so far from the Adjara-Guria center for the production of weapons. This center of production must be mentioned in our study, also because most of the craftsmen in Trebizond were Laz. This was directly mentioned in 1837 by the English officer Douglas Stevens, who visited the border territories of the Ottoman and Russian empires for the purpose of intelligence. First he visited the regions of Western Georgia, and then Lazistan" So it's not worth "reinvent the wheel" coming up with a new name, instead of the quite appropriate "Laz Bichak"