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Afro-Abkhazians are a small group of people of African descent in Abkhazia, [note 1] who historically lived in the village of Adzyubzha at the mouth of the Kodori River and the surrounding villages (Chlou, Pokvesh, Agdarra and Merkulov) on the eastern coast of the Black Sea.
Abkhazia and South Ossetia are separatist regions of Georgia in the Caucasus. [1] Most countries recognise them as part of Georgia, while Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Nauru, and Syria regard them as independent.
The Abkhazians or Abkhazes [a] are a Northwest Caucasian ethnic group, mainly living in Abkhazia, a disputed region on the northeastern coast of the Black Sea.A large Abkhaz diaspora population resides in Turkey, the origins of which lie in the Caucasian War in the late 19th century.
Abkhazia, [a] [b] officially the Republic of Abkhazia, [c] is a partially recognised state in the South Caucasus, on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and West Asia.
The Republic of Abkhazia is a partially recognized state in the South Caucasus which declared independence from Georgia during the War in Abkhazia (1992–1993).At the time, the Soviet Union had recently collapsed (1991).
Sokhumi, de jure capital of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia. During the War in Abkhazia, the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, then called the "Council of Ministers of Abkhazia", left Abkhazia after the Abkhaz separatist forces took control of the region's capital Sokhumi after heavy fighting on September 27, 1993, leading to the Sokhumi Massacre, in which several members ...
The Abkhazia conflict is a territorial dispute over Abkhazia, a region on the eastern coast of the Black Sea in the South Caucasus, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language [8] [9] and is thus related to Adyghe.The language of Abkhaz is especially close to Abaza, and they are sometimes considered dialects of the same language, [10] [11] Abazgi, of which the literary dialects of Abkhaz and Abaza are simply two ends of a dialect continuum.