Debate Over Ethnic Origins
The origins of the Bats are not so clear, and there are various theories. As the Estonian scholar Ants Viires points out in is Red Book, it is actually two separate disputes: the first being whether it was Nakh tribes or Old Georgians that inhabited Tusheti first, the second being from which (or both) the Bats are descended.
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