A focused population profile of Armenians from Artvin, their northeastern Anatolian and Caucasus-adjacent background, closest modern genetic matches, ancestry model, and World Genetics G25 heatmap.
Armenians from Artvin are connected to northeastern Anatolia near Georgia and the Black Sea-Caucasus transition zone. The region has long been a contact area between Armenian, Georgian, Turkish, Pontic, and other Caucasus-adjacent communities.
Armenian was historically part of the regional community landscape, while Turkish and diaspora languages may appear in modern family histories. Because the current Artvin reference is very small, it should be interpreted cautiously with nearby Armenian, Georgian, and eastern Anatolian pages.
As a genetic reference, Armenian Artvin is useful for comparison with Armenian Gurin, Georgian Meskhian, Armenian Erzurum, Armenian Tigranakert Diyarbakir, Armenian Mush, Armenian Artsakh, Assyrian Syriac Orthodox/Catholic Iraq, Armenian Bayazet, Assyrian Armenia, and Armenian Yerevan.
In the World Genetics modern G25 comparison, the closest non-self match for Armenian Artvin is Armenian Gurin. Other nearby references include Georgian Meskhian Catholic, Armenian Erzurum, Armenian Tigranakert (Diyarbakır), and Armenian Mush. This gives the Armenian Artvin profile its nearest modern genetic context inside the current reference database.
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The ancestry breakdown gives deeper component proportions, while closest matches show modern similarity. Armenian Artvin is best interpreted as a northeastern Anatolian/Caucasus-adjacent Armenian profile, close to Gurin, Meskhian Georgian, Erzurum, Tigranakert, Mush, Artsakh, Bayazet, Yerevan, and Assyrian references.
The heatmap should emphasize Artvin, northeastern Anatolia, Georgia's Meskhian region, Erzurum, Gurin, Tigranakert/Diyarbakir, Mush, Artsakh, Bayazet, Yerevan, and the Caucasus.
The closest non-self match in this World Genetics comparison is Armenian Gurin. Other nearby references include Georgian Meskhian Catholic, Armenian Erzurum, Armenian Tigranakert (Diyarbakır), and Armenian Mush.
In the current modern G25 reference set, Armenian Gurin is the closest listed match to the Armenian Artvin average after removing Armenian Artvin itself from the table.
The heatmap shows where modern reference populations are closer or farther from the Armenian Artvin G25 average, giving the closest-match results a geographic view.
