Bats people
The Bats people or the Batsbi are Nakh-speaking Tushetians in the country of Georgia. They are also known as the Ts’ova-Tush (წოვათუშები) after the Ts’ova Gorge in the historic Georgian mountain region of Tusheti, where they migrated to from mountainous Ingushetia. The group should not be confused with the neighbouring Kists – also a Nakh-speaking people who live in the nearby Pankisi Gorge.
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A late nineteenth-century Batsbur wedding in the village of Zemo Alvani (eastern Georgia). | |
| Total population | |
| c. 3,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Georgia (Tusheti and Kakheti) | |
| Languages | |
| Bats, Georgian | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (Georgian Orthodox) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Ingush, Tushetians, Chechens |
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