27 Apr 2025, 06:20 UTC96 views5 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
Also in Abkhazia from the 14th to the 16th century such flags are recorded, although it is difficult to call them all Abkhazian. 1 and 4 obviously belong to the Turkish garrisons in Abkhazia. The 4th flag almost completely copies the Ottoman state symbols, the 1st is apparently a symbol of the Turkish viceroyalty (Sukhumi beyleyrbeystvo) and is depicted during the fortification of the Turks in Sukhumi-kale (1578). Bo…
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11 Feb 2025, 17:34 UTC123 views4 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
Falsifiers often show maps of the 13th and 17th centuries where eastern Abkhazia, along with Sukhum, is part of the Megrelian Principality, rudely taking out of context the historical circumstances that took place in the Middle Ages in order to substantiate their narrow point of view, yes, indeed Eastern Abkhazia has been part of the Megrelian Principality for centuries, only that fact that it was illegally occupied …
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28 Jan 2025, 18:11 UTC64 views4 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
Первая перепись населения в Р.И. 1897 год. Абхазов около 71 тысячи.
First counting of population in Russian Emp. 1897 y. Abkhazians are around 71 thousand people.
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27 Jan 2025, 22:56 UTC60 views4 reactionsread 12 August 2026 File
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27 Jan 2025, 22:56 UTC60 viewsread 12 August 2026 Аҭырқә-аԥсуа аицәажәага
26 Jan 2025, 01:27 UTC66 views3 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
Interesting facts about the Abkhazians and Abkhazia. Part 2.
5. The ancestors of the Abkhazians served in the Roman army and had their own unit "ala prima absqorum" there, they were localized in Egypt during their service.
6. The Abkhaz-Abaza and Basque languages, for some reason, have lexical parallels and similare words.
7. Abkhaz pirates operated in the Black Sea before our era and continued to terrorize passing …
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24 Jan 2025, 13:21 UTC67 views5 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
Some little-known but interesting facts about Abkhazia(ns)
1. There is a word in the Abkhaz language that has no consonants at all, it is "aa" - which means "yew".
2. Researchers believe that the ancestors of the Abkhazians already existed and are mentioned in the Ⅲ-Ⅱ millennium BC.
3. The Abkhazian language is agglutinative, which means that each verb is used by "sticking" prefixes and suffixes in a moderate order.…
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19 Jan 2025, 21:05 UTC91 views2 reactionsread 12 August 2026 Photo
...but no one would suspect a non-European in the Abaza, dressed in a hat and a fraction. The Abaza are slightly taller than average, slender and strong in build, but more muscular than strong in bone. They have mostly chestnut hair, beautiful dark blue eyes, small slender legs. Blonde or red-haired girls are considered beauties.
©Teophil Lapinsky. Polish revolutionary, memoirist, who visited the Caucasus.
SOURCE:…
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19 Jan 2025, 21:05 UTC52 viewsread 12 August 2026 Historians and witnesses of the 18th and 19th century considered Samurzakan (Myrzakan, hist.
- the territory of Gal and Tkuarchal districts) by Abkhazia, and Samurzakans (Myrzakans) by Abkhazians and evidence of their Abkhazian affiliation.:
E.Kovalevsky¹
I.Pantyukhov²
D.Machavariani³
I.Bartolomey⁴
G.Philipson⁵
S.Dukhovsky⁶
A.Berge⁷
F.Tornau⁸
S.Bronevski⁹
I.Ash¹⁰
Jean Francois Gamba¹¹
M.Paysonel¹²
K.Machavariani¹³
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19 Jan 2025, 21:04 UTC43 viewsread 12 August 2026 🇬🇧NAMES OF CITIES IN ABKHAZIA AND THEIR ORIGIN
Sukhum (Akua)- is the capital of the republic and at the same time the most representative city in Abkhazia, the word Sukhum itself has many variants of origin, of which we will analyze the Turkish and local versions, the Turkish, the most common version, the statement that the name of the city comes from the Turkish name of the local fortress Sukhum - Kale, which durin…
19 Jan 2025, 21:03 UTC98 viewsread 12 August 2026 Photo
About the ethnically diverse population of Colchis kingdom and the ethnonym "Colhis"
19 Jan 2025, 21:03 UTC43 viewsread 12 August 2026 Photo
🇬🇧A little-known conflict between Abkhazians and Armenians in the 10th century regarding the Fourth Ecumenical Council.The Armenian medieval chronicler Asohik (Stepanos of Taron) reports in his “General History”:
At this time, Apkhazian prince, [emerging from] the land of the Sarmatians, which is on the other side of the mountains of the Caucasus, undertook a campaign at the head of few ten thousands troops and march…
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