Bats people

Batsbi
ბაცბი
A late nineteenth-century photograph of a Batsbur wedding in the village of Zemo Alvani (Eastern Georgia). This image was scanned by Alexander Bainbridge from an original print kept in a private collection in the village of Zemo Alvani in 2007.
A late nineteenth-century Batsbur wedding in the village of Zemo Alvani (eastern Georgia).
Total population
c. 3,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
Georgia (Tusheti and Kakheti)
Languages
Bats, Georgian
Religion
Christianity (Georgian Orthodox)

The Bats people or the Batsbi[a] 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. The group should not be confused with the neighbouring Kists – also a Nakh-speaking people who live in the nearby Pankisi Gorge.

  1. ^ Kolga 2001.


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