Georgianization

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English

Etymology

From Georgianize +‎ -ation.

Noun

Georgianization (uncountable)

  1. The act or process of Georgianizing.
    • 1997, Institutions, Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: International Experience and Its Implications for the Caucasus, May 2-3, 1997 : Conference Report:
      Georgianization policies are emphasized in this narrative, especially those from 1937-53.
    • 1998, Beverly Crawford, Ronnie D. Lipschutz, The Myth of "ethnic Conflict": Politics, Economics, and "cultural" Violence, University of California International &
      The success of Georgianization is probably best illustrated by the fact that virtually all Abkhazes living in Ajaria know Georgian, with one-fifth even claiming it as their mother tongue, compared to an astonishingly low 1.4 percent among their compatriots in Abkhazia
    • 2019, Maxim Tabachnik, Citizenship, Territoriality, and Post-Soviet Nationhood, page 245:
      Abkhazian historians explain that Georgian authorities justified Georgianization to Moscow by the communist party's goal of eventual assimilation of everyone into the Soviet people with Abkhaz assimilation a part of the process.