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English: This photo has been misidentified as being Turkmen soldiers, they are actually Khevsur warriors wearing their traditional mail armor and shields, it has been cropped from a larger image.
Khevsurians (
ხევსურები
) are an ethnographical group of Georgians, mainly living in Khevsureti, on both sides of the Caucasus Mountain Chain in the watersheds of the rivers Aragvi and Argun. There are some villages in Khevi, Ertso-Tianeti, Kakheti (Shiraki), Kvemo Kartli (Gardabani) also where Khevsurians reside. Khevsurians speak the Georgian language in Khevsurian dialect. For a long time Khevsurians have been keeping traditional culture: wearing, weapons, livings and canons.
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