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 table, Armenian Artvin is closest to 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. The result reflects an Armenian and Caucasus-adjacent eastern Anatolian comparison space.
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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.
Artvin sits near Georgia and the Caucasus-Anatolia contact zone, so Georgian Meskhian can appear close in G25 space.
It is best read as northeastern Anatolian and Caucasus-adjacent, with both Armenian Highland and Georgian-adjacent context.
Yes. The current reference has a very small sample size, so nearby Armenian and Georgian regional pages are important.
