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I'm reading Trancaucasia (an interesting mid-19th century work by a German aristocrat) and it got me wondering - how can we add yet another flavor to the Caucasian mix? Namely, how can we create a Catholic ethnicity, or convert one of the OTL ethnic groups to the Catholic church? ADDED: Let's expand it a little to include South Russia (more or less the Southern Federal District), just to make things easier - maybe!
OTL Eastern Rite Catholics could perhaps be a nucleus, although the Armenians are the only ones that seem to claim any real numbers.
Can we somehow get enough Genoese immigration/assimilation along the coast to create an enduring Caucasian Italian ethnicity?