Balaklava is a village in the very Kartvelian Crimea. The ending "-ava" is typical of Megrelian surnames. Balaklia is a town in the Kharkov region, also a very Kartvelian region. The ending "-ia" is also typical of Megrelian surnames.
Balaklidze is a real surname.
Even if the root in these words is Turkic, as it is officially believed, the three different Kartvelian endings still must be explained somehow.
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