28855 Homshetsi 150,000 "Presently [Hamshenis] mainly inhabit the Black Sea coastal areas of Turkey, Russia, and Georgia and also have smaller communities in Armenia and Central Asia (the latter being the consequence of forced migration from Soviet Georgia in 1944). Together the Russian and Georgian populations consist of approximately 150,000 individuals (Kuznetsov 1995)." Paternal Lineage Analysis Supports An Armenian Rather Than A Central Asian Genetic Origin Of The Hamshenis Off