People / group
Abkhaz people
The Abkhaz are a people of the north-western Caucasus who live mainly in Abkhazia, on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. They speak Abkhaz, a Northwest Caucasian language. Ruled by their own princes under Georgian and later Ottoman influence, they came under Russia in the 19th century, and many were deported or emigrated to the Ottoman Empire in the 1860s and 1870s. Abkhazia broke away from Georgia in the war of 1992 and 1993.
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