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[[File:Ethnolinguistic map of Turkey.jpg|thumb|Right|500px|Ethnic Groups of Turkey.]]
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(contracted; show full)in Turkey. Their number today is estimated at 2,250,000.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=DJ_hppqYIxQC&pg=PA90&dq=laz+language&hl=tr&ei=HNBSTvHDI6HP4QSrodHfAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC0Q6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=laz%20language&f=false The Uses and Abuses of History, Margaret MacMillan] Google Books</ref> The Laz are [[Sunni Muslims]]. Only a minority are bilingual in Turkish and their native [[Laz language]] which belongs to the 
[[South CaucasKartvelian lLanguages|South Caucasian group]] group along with Georgian. The number of the Laz speakers is decreasing, and is now limited chiefly to the [[Rize]] and [[Artvin]] areas. The historical term [[Lazistan]] — formerly referring to a narrow tract of land along the [[Black Sea]] inhabited by the Laz as well as by several other ethnic groups — has been banned from official use and replaced with ''Doğu Karadeniz'' (which also includes [[Trabzon]]). During the [[Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878]], the [[Muslim]] population of Russia near the war zones wa(contracted; show full)*{{citeweb|url=http://turkishpolicy.com/files/articlepdf/freedom-of-religion-and-non-muslim-minorities-in-turkey-winter-2015-en.pdf|title=Freedom of religion and non-Muslim minorities in Turkey|work=Beylunioğlu, Anna Maria|publisher=Turkish Policy Quarterly 13.4 (2015): 139-147.}}

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