Details: Category: Abkhazia-Georgia

Abbreviated Version of Abkhazian Conflict: Nine Questions and answers - Andrew Andersen’s assertions and George Hewitt's responses

Tamaz Gamq’relidze, director of the Oriental Institute in Tbilisi, member of both the Georgian and Soviet Academies of Sciences, and honorary member of both the British and American Academies published in 1991 the Georgian version of an article entitled On the History of the Tribal Names of Ancient Colchis (On the historical-etymological relation of the ethnonyms 'Apxaz-/Abazg-' and 'Abaza/Apswa'). The Georgian original was the full version of the article, and it appeared in the Georgian journal macne 'Reporter' (Historical Series 2, 1991, 7-16).

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