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26 June, 2020
From Rome to Constantinople: studies in honour of Averil CameronEdited by By Hagit Amirav and Bas Ter Haar Romeny. (Leuven–Paris–Dudley, MA: Peeters, 2007) Strabo and Procopius: classical geography for a Christian empire (pp...
25 June, 2020
Language Aspects of Ethnic Patterns and Processes in the North CaucasusAuthor: Ronald WixmanYear: 1980Publisher: University of Chicago, Dept. of GeographyPlace of Publication: Chicago, USANumber of pages: 243 / 263Language: EnglishResearch paper (University of...
25 June, 2020
Nestor Lakoba was poisoned by Lavrentiy Beria, head of the NKVD, the Soviet security organization responsible for extrajudicial killings and the gulag system. During a visit to Beria in Tbilisi in...
24 June, 2020
Trois récits oubykhsAuthor: Georges DumézilYear: 1959 Publisher: Anthropos, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Place of Publication: Baden, GermanyNumber of pages: 30 [pp. 99-128]Language: FrenchAnthropos, vol. 54, no. 1/2, 1959, pp. 99–128.
12 June, 2020
Central Asian Survey Volume 14, 1995 - Issue 2, Pages 285-310 The Mitteilungsblatt der Berliner Georgischen Gesellschaft (No. 22, 1993) published an article entitled Völker, Sprachen und Kulturen des südlichen Kaukasus...
09 June, 2020
Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and ThoughtAuthor: Allison BlakelyYear: 1986 (Originally published: 1979)Publisher: Howard University PressPlace of Publication: Washington, D.C., USANumber of pages: 201Language: EnglishAllison Blakely, Professor Emeritus of History.
03 May, 2013
Reflections on Abkhazia: [14 August] 1992-2012 The Republic of Abkhazia, factually an independent state with limited formal recognition, a client of Moscow, and unlikely ever to be a component of Georgia in any form, bears a mark upon it, “Made in...
14 March, 2013
Reflections on Abkhazia: [14 August] 1992-2012 Immediately after the Caucasian War (21 May 1864), in June 1864 the independent princedom of Abkhazia was abolished, and the sovereign prince Mikhail Shervashidze (Chachba) was subjected to political repression; in 1866, he died in...
21 October, 2008
Abkhazia: a problem of identity and ownership History and Documents Central Asian Survey, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 267–323, 1993 by George B. Hewitt The Abkhazians living in Turkey have preserved very well the customs, language and dances carried there from Abkhazia by their ...
15 October, 2008
In this paper* I trace the emergence and evolution of the Georgian—Abkhaz conflict up to the invasion of Abkhazia by Georgian forces on August 14, 1992. I try to pinpoint the most crucial events and causative factors, and to infer...
23 May, 2020
In June 1861, on the initiative of the Ubykhs, a 'mejlis' (parliament) was constituted not far from Sochi; it was known as 'The Great and Free Assembly'. The Ubykhs, the Circassian Shapsughs and Abadzekhs/Abzakhs, and the Abkhazian tribes of Ahchypsy...
28 February, 2020
Everyone who is somehow familiar with the history of the Patriotic War of the people of Abkhazia could not help but hear about the Assembly of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus, which was soon renamed the Confederation. This is no...
14 February, 2020
After most of Abkhazia’s indigenous Abkhazians were expelled to Ottoman lands firstly at the end of the Great Caucasian War (1864) and then following the Russo-Turkish War (1877-78), their vacated lands immediately started to attract colonisation from such diverse incomers...
14 March, 2013
Reflections on Abkhazia: [14 August] 1992-2012 Immediately after the Caucasian War (21 May 1864), in June 1864 the independent princedom of Abkhazia was abolished, and the sovereign prince Mikhail Shervashidze (Chachba) was subjected to political repression; in 1866, he died in...
20 May, 2020
In the village of Djgerda, on the periphery of civilization, where even the dirt road has long been overgrown with grass, lives centenarian Fenya Latsushba, who turned 107 a few days ago. It is impossible to listen to her story without...
27 April, 2020
Architect Şebnem (Shabnam) Marshan from Turkey decided to stay in Abkhazia forever after spending two weeks here. As for what made her return to her historical homeland and how the life of a repatriate in the ‘Land of the Soul’...
23 March, 2020
The Ritsa National Park is located in the mountainous part of Abkhazia on the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Range, between the Ghegha River and the Pshchitsa River. It was founded in 1996 on the basis of the Ritsa...
04 February, 2018
The secrets of the ancient method of preparing the Abkhazian national seasoning known as ajika [adjika or adzhika; Abkhaz: аџьыка] and the transformation of hot pepper and spices on stone into a unique, fragrant and piquant ‘masterpiece’ were revealed to a correspondent...
