Abstract:
Several facts of social (collective) memory are preserved in the traditional life of
Georgians in Turkey. Every historical passage, as a result of historical-ethnographic
research, is evidently separated from a concrete historic environment and time, but this is
natural, because the main sign of the collective memory is the separation from the concrete
and individual signs. The main and essentially important facts stay in social memory and are
mythologised. The most important social facts among the Georgians in Turkey are the
historical moments related to King Tamar (“Queen Tamar”) which are universal for every
historical-ethographic region of Georgia, but among the Georgians in Turkey the image of
King Tamar is the main marker of the ethnic identity and the social connection to the
traditional Georgian culture. The reflections of several historical facts, which are spread as
universal plots in historical Tao-Klarjeti and among the descendants of the so-called
Muhajirebi living in central and Black Sea regions of Turkey, are discussed in the same
context.
