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13 January, 2022
The festival of Azhyrnyhwa with its divine patron Shashwa, one of the most ancient, archaic deities in the Abkhazian pantheon, occupies a special place in the traditional ethnic religion of the Abkhazians...
05 January, 2022
Vitaly Sharia - Ekho Kavkaza The notes of the Russian lawyer and statesman Alexander Demjanov, a member of the Abkhazian People's Council, written a century ago, were published for the first...
05 January, 2022
List of documents on the history of Abkhazia of the XIX - early XX centuries by funds The Russian State Historical ArchiveCompilation by: M. G. Bzhania, A. A. Knyazeva, M. R...
24 November, 2021
Ekho Kavkaza -- A working trip to the Republic of Turkey of a large delegation from Abkhazia took almost a week. In the city of Izmit, which is a hundred...
19 November, 2021
Roland Zantaria, a resident of the village of Khwap, Gudauta District, became interested in making staffs and Abkhazian knives; neither does he abandon the seasonal distillation of chacha according to...
11 October, 2021
Abkhazia and Italian city-states of the XIII-XV centuries, by Vyacheclav ChirikbaАбхазия и итальянские города-государства (XIII–XV вв.). Очерки взаимоотношений Review by Giorgio Comai | First published in Balcani Caucaso Between the 13th and...
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...
28 April, 2020
Yuri Magomedovich Shanibov lived a rich (Soviet) biography that fully reflected the changing historical epochs. Back in 1997 the world-famous French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu felt so intrigued by the photo of the distinguished-looking Shanibov, always in his Caucasian sheepskin papakha hat —...
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’...
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...
