User:Lazicum/Lazistan campaign

Massacres
45,000 Muslim Laz and Adjarians as a punishment for their pro-Turkish orientation were slaughtered during the campaign led by the Russian general Vladimir Lyakhov. Lyakhov ravaged and depopulated the entire Coruh valley up to Artvin, in the vicinity of which only 7,000 out of a previous population of 52,000 Georgian Muslims were left alive.