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Ahıska · June 2022
A window onto the homeland
The land remains. This is it now: the road, signs to the villages, a house from inside, a spring, the rails.
The road to Ahıska
A sign at dawn: 76 kilometres to Ahıska
Ahıska Club TV
Full screenIn the footsteps of our ancestors —
to a living family today
Family trees, elders' voices, the memory of the villages of Ahiska — and a community where families torn apart in 1944 find each other again.
39
people in family trees
322
villages of Ahiska listed
1
elder’s voice
Open to all — even without signing in
So what makes a person Ahıska?
Thirty-one concepts: what our homeland is called and why, what shajara and nikah are, what the patterns on a kilim say. For those who grew up far away and want to reclaim this — and pass it on to their children.
Open the FoundationsThe Keeper
Historian assistant: villages, traditions, language, kin
The Keeper is a helper, not an archive: it can make mistakes. Verify important family facts with your elders and documents.
Villages hall of fame
Whose descendants search for their roots most
Tsinis
10
Zikila
3
Klde
2
Hertvis
2
Word of the day
Tal
✦ ✦ ✦
“A tree stands by its roots,
and a person by their kin.”
Wisdom of the ancestors
Proverbs and talesPlatform sections
A home where memory lives
My roots
Shajara — family tree
Ancestors and family branches: dates, photos, community verification of every branch.
Family
A living family's card: migrations, legends, document archive.
My circles
Family, my circle, public — who sees you and whom you see.
Book of Memory
The names of those who did not survive the 1944 deportation and the years that followed.
Find my village
Did the deportation cut the link to your village? Share clues — the community helps find the root.
The living word
Oral history
Voices and stories of the elders — record them while there is still time.
Dictionary
A living Ahiska dialect dictionary — learn the ancestral language word by word.
Community
Community feed: nine countries, one people.
Kismet
Meeting through the family — görücü usülü, with dignity and tradition.
Our knowledge
Encyclopedia
History, the villages of Ahiska, culture, language and the memory of the deportation.
Foundations
The concepts, values and customs of the people — for those reclaiming their roots.
Where to find your kin
The archive trail: deportation lists, war records, Georgian registries — and the legal path to Turkish residency for Ahiska Turks.
✦ One people — dozens of countries
Map of the scattering
After 1944 the Ahiska people were scattered across the world. But the root is one.
The deportation
Over a few November days the whole people was taken from 212 villages — the old, the women, the children. About a month in freight wagons — to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
92,307 people · 212 villages
Sources ↓The deportation
Over a few November days the whole people was taken from 212 villages — the old, the women, the children. About a month in freight wagons — to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
92,307 people · 212 villages
Sources ↓Lines show directions, not the routes of the trains. Figures come from the sources in the chronicle below.
November 14 — Remembrance Day. In 1944 our people were deported from Ahiska. We remember every village and every family.
Book of Memory →