Sanjak Lazistan
Lazistan , Germanized Lasistan ( Ottoman لازستان Lâzistân ), is the name of a landscape on the Black Sea and an Ottoman district that belonged to the Vilayet Trapezunt and was partly independent. The name is derived from the Lasen , a South Caucasian people. Until the area was conquered and Islamized by Mehmed II in 1461 , it belonged to the Trapezunt Empire and was shaped by Christianity.
Nowadays Lazistan is predominantly part of the Turkish Republic and its population is well integrated into the state structure through the tea industry . Ottoman territorial designations such as Lazistan and Kurdistan are legally invalid .
There is a historical reference to the kingdom of Lasika but also to Colchis , even if the ethnic group and empire, mainly due to migration, cannot be described within the narrow limits of the geographical definition by the Sanjak Lazistan. For a complete ethnic consideration, at least certain larger parts of southwest Georgia have to be added.
The center of the sanjak was initially Batumi , but after the city was handed over to the Russians, Rize became the new capital.
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- ↑ Ildikó Bellér-Hann, CM Hann: Turkish region: state, market & social identities on the east Black Sea coast ( en ). J. Currey, May 17, 2001, ISBN 978-0-85255-279-7 , pp. 1- (accessed January 10, 2011).