Çoruh River
There are approximately 1 million people of Georgian ancestry in Turkey according to the newspaper "Milliyet". Georgians in Turkey are mostly Sunni Muslims of Hanafi "madh'hab". Immigrant Georgians are called "Chveneburi", but autochthonous Muslim Georgians use this term as well. Muslim Georgians form the majority in parts of Artvin Province east of the Çoruh River. Immigrant Muslim groups of Georgian origin, found scattered in Turkey, are known as Chveneburi. The smallest Georgian group are Catholics living in Istanbul.