Abkhazia

The Abkhaz's ancestors were part of the broad conglomerate of tribes that populated the Eastern shores of the Black Sea more than 2000 years ago. Abkhazia covers 8.700 square km and had 525,061 inhabitants in 1989, 44 percent Georgian (Kartvehan), 17 percent Abkhazian, 16 percent Russian and 15 percent Armenian. Rural population among the Abkhaz 52 percent (1989).

According to Abkhazians, Abkhaz population are not less than 100.000, but they are a minority group in their own republic. The 1989 Soviet census gives the share of Abkhaz in Abkhazia as 17 percent. The largest group in the Republic were Georgians, and the rest primarily Russians and Armenians. As mentioned earlier the situation has not always been like that.
A Russian census from 1886 gives an Abkhaz figure of 59.000 constituting more than 85 percent of the population in Abkhazia....... more

Abkhazian Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba answered questions of Agency Caucasus

"United Nations can not dictate solution for Abkhazia"

By Fehim Taştekin

CELEBRATING 10th ANNIVERSARY OF ABKHAZIAN INDEPENDENCE
ABKHAZIA WILL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW ITS PEACEFUL COURSE
Zantaria: In order to prevent a new war, we will stick to the way of peace through diplomacy and negotiations.	Shamba: We are in the delicate situation of having to take into account the views of the Great Powers and yet expect them to respect our position too.
The visiting Abkhazian delegation in Istanbul sent out a message of unity and solidarity with the North Caucasian Diaspora emphasizing their commitment to defend the Abkhazian independence through diplomacy and non-violent peaceful measures. >>>>

DIASPORA AND ABKHAZIA: IN THE NAME OF SOLIDARITY

The Caucasus-Abkhazian Solidarity Committee, a fruit of the combined efforts of the Diaspora and the motherland Abkhazians, gathered the veterans of the struggle for the freedom of Abkhazia to celebrate its 10 years of existence.                                               By Fehim Tastekin

Abkhaz footprints in Yorkshire

GEORGE HEWITT'S STORY AND ABKHAZIA'S CURRENT TOPICS

By: Fehim Tashtekin - Zeynel Abidin Besleney (Agency Caucasus, London 09.05.2002)

Actual results of so-called embargo
			It was a rainy day when I travelled to the Abkhazian border. I travelled over Lazarevsky, Sochi and Adler to the Abkhazian border. Abkhazia is one of the places I most wanted to visit at the coastal Black Sea at the Caucasus. By Fehim Taştekin
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