Lazistan

Meaning

Proper Noun

• The sanjak comprising the Laz or Lazuri-speaking population on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea.
• A historical and cultural region of the southwestern Caucasus and northeastern Anatolia, traditionally inhabited by the Laz people, also called Lazona.

Origin

• Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لازستان, itself borrowed from Persian لازستان ("Lazica; Lazia").