After Russia annexed Batumi in 1878, tens of thousands of Muslim Laz left as muhacir and resettled around Duzce, the Marmara region and Istanbul.

A 5th-century Laz monk and theologian, born in Lazica, who became a founder of Christian monasticism in Jerusalem and the lifelong companion of Peter the Iberian.

In December 1925 Rize rose against the Hat Law; the cruiser Hamidiye shelled the area and eight local men, including imam Saban Koliva, were hanged.

Christian for more than a thousand years, the Laz gradually converted to Sunni Islam under Ottoman rule, a slow transformation that shaped their identity today.

From the 4th century the Kingdom of Lazica became one of the earliest Christian lands in the world, tying the Laz to the Byzantine Orthodox world.

From the 16th century until 1923 the eastern Black Sea formed the Sanjak of Lazistan, the Ottoman province named after the Laz, until the name was ...

For twenty years (541-562) the Byzantine and Sasanian empires fought over the Kingdom of Lazica, the Laz homeland on the eastern Black Sea, in a war ...

A profile of the linguist and Laz Institute president who has led the modern effort to document and revive the Laz language, drawing on his public ...

The tulum (Lazuri: guda) is the iconic bagpipe of the eastern Black Sea coast and one of the most recognisable sounds of Lazistan. Unlike the Scottish ...

The kemence, the slender three-stringed fiddle of the eastern Black Sea, is one of the two great instruments of Laz music alongside the tulum.