Author: Lazepe

Published on 7 November 1929, Mcita Murutskhi (Red Star) was the first newspaper ever printed in the Laz language, the milestone now marked as Laz Language ...

Lazuri Nena, the grammar that set down the rules of a language carried for centuries in songs, proverbs and everyday speech.

Between 1814 and 1834 the Laz of the eastern Black Sea, led by the Tuzcuoglu family, rose against Ottoman centralisation and even captured Trabzon, in one ...

Iskender Tzitashi, the Laz teacher and writer who built a Laz alphabet and school system in the Soviet Union before his execution in 1938.

Wolfgang Feurstein, the German ethnologist who devised a Laz alphabet and spent his life documenting the Lazuri language.

Gubazes II, king of Lazica during the Lazic War between Byzantium and Sassanid Persia, and his murder by Byzantine commanders in 555 AD.

Birol Topaloglu, the Laz musician and researcher who collected and recorded the traditional tulum and kemence music of Lazistan.

Volkan Konak, the Black Sea singer whose music carried the sound of the eastern Black Sea to audiences across Turkey.

Kazim Koyuncu (1971-2005), the Che Guevara of the Black Sea: the iconic Laz musician and activist who became the voice of modern Laz identity.

The landscapes of Lazistan: the Firtina valley, Zil Kale, the highland pastures and the tea terraces of the eastern Black Sea coast.