Links to Web pages on the
              cultures and languages of the North and South Caucasus
            NB: The following list of links is by no means complete
              nor likely to be representative of what's out there in
              Cyberspace. I have tried to include sites representing
              differing points of view on matters political, cultural
              and scientific. Needless to say, I by no means endorse all
              — or even most — of the opinions expressed on these pages.
              Please contact me with addresses of relevant sites not
              listed here, and I will include them as soon as possible.
            
            
              
                I. Ethnography, linguistics, culture, literature
               a. Caucasia as a whole.
a. Caucasia as a whole. 
                International Caucasological Research
                  Institute  (includes PDF formatted articles from
                the journal "Amirani") 
                Caucasus Studies (University of
                Jena); Facebook
                  page
                Projekt TITUS (Extensive online
                collection of texts in Indo-European and Caucasian
                languages, directed by Prof. Jost Gippert)
                Central Eurasian
                  Studies Society (CESS)Jost Gippert: Publications (numerous
                downloadable papers on Iranian and Caucasian languages)
                Language
                  map of the Caucasus (prepared by Jost Gippert) 
                Soyuz:Postsocialist Cultural Studies
                
               b. North Caucasus
b. North Caucasus
                 
                Circassian World
                
                  The Ingush Language (Johanna Nichols' Ingush
                Language project at UC-Berkeley)
                Wolfgang Schulze (leading expert on
                Daghestanian linguistics, including important work on
                Udi and the newly-discovered Caucasian Albanian
                palimpsests)
                Northwest
                  Caucasian linguistics — University of Graz
                Language Server
                Northeast
                  Caucasian linguistics — University of Graz
                Language Server
               c. South Caucasus.
c. South Caucasus.
                 American
                      Research Institute of the South Caucasus
                    (ARISC)
                Abkhazia:
                  Archaeology and ethnography (mostly in Russian;
                lots of pictures)
                Georgian Language and Culture (Dr.
                Shorena Kurtsikidze, Georgian ethnologist living in
                California)
                Web-site of the Parliament
                  of Georgia. 
                Besik
                  Sisauri (des renseignements de toutes sortes sur
                la Géorgie et des liens à d'autres sites d'intérêt)
                Kartvelian
                  (South Caucasian) linguistics — University of Graz
                Language Server
                The Georgian language: distance learning
                  course (Malmo University, Sweden)
                Batsav, about the
                Tsova-Tush (Bats) people of Georgia, and the Caucasus in
                general (Alex Bainbridge) 
                Georgia and
                  South Caucasus blog (an excellent starting point
                for getting to know the region) 
                
                
                II. Literature and music
                Donald Rayfield (Emeritus Professor
                of Georgian and Russian literature in London)
                Le chevalier à la peau de panthère
                (texte intégral de l'épopée géorgienne médiévale,
                traduit par Gaston Bouatchidzé)
                Kartuli
                  literatura (Selection of Georgian poetry and other
                writings, in Georgian, using Unicode fonts)
                
               La
                musique du compositeur géorgien
                  Félix Glonti (avec sa Symphonie romantique et
                quelques autres compositions en format MP3)
La
                musique du compositeur géorgien
                  Félix Glonti (avec sa Symphonie romantique et
                quelques autres compositions en format MP3) 
                Karalahana
                  Black Sea culture site, with information,
                pictures, music etc. from the Laz communities of eastern
                Turkey
                The Best Georgian Music website (created
                by Maya Urushadze)
                Deepdown Productions (recordings of
                Georgian music by Mzetamze, Anchiskhati, Darbazi and
                Georgika) 
                Georgian music: MIDI and Real Audio
                files (Besiki Sisauri)
                Radio 105 Tbilisi ("mamachemis
                radio"; popular, modern & folk music)
                Ensemble Marani (Georgian-music
                ensemble based in Paris)
                Trio Kavkasia
                (Alan Gasser, Stuart Gelzer, Carl Linich) — includes
                notes about the Georgian folk songs on Kavkasia's three
                CDs, and an excellent introduction to Georgian music,
                tuning and instruments. 
                
                
                IV. History, archaeology
               Giorgi
                  Leon Kavtaradze (Georgian historian and
                archaeologist Giorgi Leon Kavtaradze, with selected
                  papers & much more)
Giorgi
                  Leon Kavtaradze (Georgian historian and
                archaeologist Giorgi Leon Kavtaradze, with selected
                  papers & much more)
                Adam Smith Homepage (Archaeology in
                the Caucasus, especially
                  Armenia)
                Caucasology
                (International Caucasological Research Institute, and
                its journal "Amirani", available on line)
                Prof. Paata Bukhrashvili (Georgian
                ethnologist and archaeologist P'aat'a Buxrashvili)
                Die georgisch-deutsche
                  Expedition in Ananuri (Universität Halle) 
                Georgica
                  (Tbilisi State University)
                Dmanisi
                  archeological site (1.8 million year old remains
                of hominid, similar to homo erectus) 
                American
                  Center of Khazar Studies (founded by Kevin Brooks;
                a wealth of information about the medieval Khazar
                kingdom of the North Caucasus, whose ruling class
                adopted Judaism)
                Peter
                  Golden (Historian of Central Asia and the
                Caucasus)
                
              
              V. Current affairs, politics
               RFE/RL
                  24-Hour LIVE Broadcast Studio (broadcasts in
                languages of Eastern Europe and Central Asia)
RFE/RL
                  24-Hour LIVE Broadcast Studio (broadcasts in
                languages of Eastern Europe and Central Asia)
                RFE/RL
                  NewsLine
                Broadcasting
                  Company Rustavi 2 (daily news from Georgian TV
                station)
                Civil Georgia:
                On-line magazine of Georgian political news, building
                civil society, etc.
                Georgian Association Home Page
                Caucasus and Central Asia Program at UC
                  Berkeley
                National
                  Council for Eurasian and East European Research, Home
                  Page
              
              
              
              
                VI. Geography, travel
                Georgia  (Georgian population
                by regions)
                Weather Underground: Tbilisi, Georgia
                  Forecast