Abstract
Migrations Influencing Ethnic Structure of the Eastern Anatolian Region
The settlement of the Turkmens in Eastern Black Sea is crucial in making of the current ethnic structure of the Eastern Black Sea region from the XI. century on. Kipchaks coming via Georgia in the second half of the XIII. century settled in the üne Artvin-Rize-Trabzon, and kept their existence up to now. There happened migrations of also the Lazi, Georgians and Circassians. After sending the Greek-speaking population of the region to Greece in 1923, current ethnic structure was formed.<
Keywords
the Eastern Black Sea region, ethnic structure, migrations, Turkmens, Kipchaks, Rums, the Lazi.
