The north east of Turkey was once part of the Georgian Kingdom of Iberia and there are still some interesting Georgian churches to be found in the area. In the 9th and 10th centuries the Çoruh river valley was part of the Tao-Klarjeti region ruled by the Bagrationi dynasty – the founder of which had…
How many times have we filled out a form and, being asked to declare our ethnic origin we come across the term “white/caucasian”. Doesn’t it seem a puzzling label? The term was first introduced in early biological anthropology and was coined by the German philosopher Cristoph Meiners in 1795. He used it, he said, not…
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