Links to Web pages on the
cultures and languages of the North and South Caucasus
NB: The following list of links is by no means complete
nor likely to be representative of what's out there in
Cyberspace. I have tried to include sites representing
differing points of view on matters political, cultural
and scientific. Needless to say, I by no means endorse all
— or even most — of the opinions expressed on these pages.
Please contact me with addresses of relevant sites not
listed here, and I will include them as soon as possible.
I. Ethnography, linguistics, culture, literature
a. Caucasia as a whole.
International Caucasological Research
Institute (includes PDF formatted articles from
the journal "Amirani")
Caucasus Studies (University of
Jena); Facebook
page
Projekt TITUS (Extensive online
collection of texts in Indo-European and Caucasian
languages, directed by Prof. Jost Gippert)
Central Eurasian
Studies Society (CESS)Jost Gippert: Publications (numerous
downloadable papers on Iranian and Caucasian languages)
Language
map of the Caucasus (prepared by Jost Gippert)
Soyuz:Postsocialist Cultural Studies
b. North Caucasus
Circassian World
The Ingush Language (Johanna Nichols' Ingush
Language project at UC-Berkeley)
Wolfgang Schulze (leading expert on
Daghestanian linguistics, including important work on
Udi and the newly-discovered Caucasian Albanian
palimpsests)
Northwest
Caucasian linguistics — University of Graz
Language Server
Northeast
Caucasian linguistics — University of Graz
Language Server
c. South Caucasus.
American
Research Institute of the South Caucasus
(ARISC)
Abkhazia:
Archaeology and ethnography (mostly in Russian;
lots of pictures)
Georgian Language and Culture (Dr.
Shorena Kurtsikidze, Georgian ethnologist living in
California)
Web-site of the Parliament
of Georgia.
Besik
Sisauri (des renseignements de toutes sortes sur
la Géorgie et des liens à d'autres sites d'intérêt)
Kartvelian
(South Caucasian) linguistics — University of Graz
Language Server
The Georgian language: distance learning
course (Malmo University, Sweden)
Batsav, about the
Tsova-Tush (Bats) people of Georgia, and the Caucasus in
general (Alex Bainbridge)
Georgia and
South Caucasus blog (an excellent starting point
for getting to know the region)
II. Literature and music
Donald Rayfield (Emeritus Professor
of Georgian and Russian literature in London)
Le chevalier à la peau de panthère
(texte intégral de l'épopée géorgienne médiévale,
traduit par Gaston Bouatchidzé)
Kartuli
literatura (Selection of Georgian poetry and other
writings, in Georgian, using Unicode fonts)
La
musique du compositeur géorgien
Félix Glonti (avec sa Symphonie romantique et
quelques autres compositions en format MP3)
Karalahana
Black Sea culture site, with information,
pictures, music etc. from the Laz communities of eastern
Turkey
The Best Georgian Music website (created
by Maya Urushadze)
Deepdown Productions (recordings of
Georgian music by Mzetamze, Anchiskhati, Darbazi and
Georgika)
Georgian music: MIDI and Real Audio
files (Besiki Sisauri)
Radio 105 Tbilisi ("mamachemis
radio"; popular, modern & folk music)
Ensemble Marani (Georgian-music
ensemble based in Paris)
Trio Kavkasia
(Alan Gasser, Stuart Gelzer, Carl Linich) — includes
notes about the Georgian folk songs on Kavkasia's three
CDs, and an excellent introduction to Georgian music,
tuning and instruments.
IV. History, archaeology
Giorgi
Leon Kavtaradze (Georgian historian and
archaeologist Giorgi Leon Kavtaradze, with selected
papers & much more)
Adam Smith Homepage (Archaeology in
the Caucasus, especially
Armenia)
Caucasology
(International Caucasological Research Institute, and
its journal "Amirani", available on line)
Prof. Paata Bukhrashvili (Georgian
ethnologist and archaeologist P'aat'a Buxrashvili)
Die georgisch-deutsche
Expedition in Ananuri (Universität Halle)
Georgica
(Tbilisi State University)
Dmanisi
archeological site (1.8 million year old remains
of hominid, similar to homo erectus)
American
Center of Khazar Studies (founded by Kevin Brooks;
a wealth of information about the medieval Khazar
kingdom of the North Caucasus, whose ruling class
adopted Judaism)
Peter
Golden (Historian of Central Asia and the
Caucasus)
V. Current affairs, politics
RFE/RL
24-Hour LIVE Broadcast Studio (broadcasts in
languages of Eastern Europe and Central Asia)
RFE/RL
NewsLine
Broadcasting
Company Rustavi 2 (daily news from Georgian TV
station)
Civil Georgia:
On-line magazine of Georgian political news, building
civil society, etc.
Georgian Association Home Page
Caucasus and Central Asia Program at UC
Berkeley
National
Council for Eurasian and East European Research, Home
Page
VI. Geography, travel
Georgia (Georgian population
by regions)
Weather Underground: Tbilisi, Georgia
Forecast