Georgify

present singular third person Georgifies · participle present Georgifying · participle past Georgified · past Georgified

1. to make Georgian

   Since that time they have been constantly trying to Georgify Abkhazia.

   1992, FBIS Report: Central Eurasia

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   Vostorgov, a conservative cleric with administrative experience in the Caucasus, argued that he could cite numerous examples "of the crudest efforts to Georgify the Abkhazians and Оssetians, I could point to tens of parishes and schools in which Georgian is being forcibly imposed."

   2006, Acta Slavica Iaponica

   In regards to Adjaria, authorities in Tbilisi invested extraordinary effort into Georgifying names and prohibiting religious customs, causing the Muslim inhabitants of the region to increasingly identify themselves as Georgian (Derluguian 1998).

   2013, Sten Berglund, The Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 777