Dvill

Villages of Georgia’s
Azerbaijani community

ENAZ Azərbaycanca

WE KEEP
THE MEMORY

Dvill is a cultural heritage project. Its only purpose is to preserve the cultural memory of the Azerbaijani communities of Georgia: their schools, places, language, stories and family photographs.

Nº 01About the project

Dvill (digital villages) is a digital archive that collects the cultural memory of Georgia’s Azerbaijani villages. Each village gets its own page: its history, school, places, language, photographs and the memories of its people.

The project began with Qaratəhlə. A series on the schools of Kvemo Kartli villages continues on Instagram and is gradually moving to the site.

Statement

Not a political project

Dvill is a non-political cultural project. Its only aim is to preserve and keep alive the local culture of Georgia’s Azerbaijani villages: their schools, places, language and memories. We make no political statements, take no position on political questions and do not speak for any state, party or organisation. We respect Georgia’s laws and all of its communities. Interviewees speak for themselves; their views are not Dvill’s.

Nº 02Principles
  1. 01Culture, not politics.
  2. 02Every fact sourced, every photo credited.
  3. 03Made with the communities, not about them.
Nº 03How we work
01

We collect

Photographs, documents and memories from villagers, researchers and archives.

02

We check

Every fact is checked against a source. We do not publish what we cannot source.

03

We credit

Every photograph and every fact carries its source.

Nº 04Sources

  • Şurəddin Məmmədli

    Gürcüstan Azərbaycanlıları (Georgia’s Azerbaijanis)

    Tbilisi, 2006. A statistical and encyclopedic reference book on the villages where Azerbaijanis live.

  • Dr. Aygül İsayeva

    Factors affecting mother-tongue acquisition among pupils of Azerbaijani-language schools in Georgia

    2026, in Azerbaijani. A study of how pupils in Georgia’s Azerbaijani-language schools learn their mother tongue.

  • National Statistics Office of Georgia

    2024 Population and Agricultural Census

    Geostat. Ethnic composition by municipality and the population of each village.

  • Report.az

    Georgia explains why Azerbaijani-language schools closed

    2 November 2021. 116 Azerbaijani-language schools in the 2021/22 school year.