Dictionary of Geographical Names of Abkhazia and Other States, by Viacheslav Chirikba
Professor Viacheslav Chirikba, a distinguished linguist and former Foreign Minister of Abkhazia.
Аԥсны егьырҭ атурылаҟақәеи ргеографиатә хьыӡқәа ржәар
Dictionary of Geographical Names of Abkhazia and Other States
Словарь географических названий Абхазии и других стран
Author: Viacheslav Chirikba
Place of Publication: Sukhum / Moscow
Published by: D.I. Gulia Abkhazian Institute for Humanitarian Research of the Academy of Sciences of Abkhazia; Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Number of pages: 448
Language: Abkhaz, Russian, English
“Dictionary of Geographical Names of Abkhazia and Other States” is the first Abkhaz-Russian-English and Russian-Abkhaz-English dictionary of place names of the Republic of Abkhazia. The book also includes a Russian-Abkhaz dictionary of geographical names of foreign states, a brief Russian-Abkhaz dictionary of geographical terms, and a Russian-Abkhaz dictionary of ethnic terms. The dictionary contains useful reference material for geographers, cartographers, journalists, teachers and students of secondary and higher educational institutions of Abkhazia, translators, philologists, administrations of villages and cities of Abkhazia, as well as for a wider readership.
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Table of Contents
Foreword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Principles of transcription of Abkhaz geographical
names into Russian and English. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Abkhaz toponymical and hydronymical suffixes. . . . . 29
Dictionary of Geographical Names of Abkhazia
(Abkhaz-Russian-English). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Dictionary of Geographical Names of Abkhazia
(Russian-Abkhaz-English). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Dictionary of Geographical Names of the Countries
of the World (Russian-Abkhaz). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
International Country Codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Dictionary of Geographical Terms (RussianAbkhaz). . 325
Dictionary of Ethnic Names (Russian-Abkhaz). . . . . 356
Abbreviations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Used maps and atlases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
List of Documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Appendices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .379