Throughout the 16th-18th centuries, the Abkhazian lords were involved in the incessant border conflicts with the Mingrelian princes.

These conversions of the Abkhazian princes were, however, not irreversible ; during the 19th century, various Shervashidzes shifted back and forth across the religious divide, as the Russians and Ottomans struggled for control of the region.

Gagra and the Abkhazian capital Sukhumi were at the centre of the fighting and suffered heavy damage.

The Chechens were eventually defeated by Russian and Abkhazian forces.

Disorder was still rampant in the kingdom, but Bagrat ’ s descend from both Bagratid and Abkhazian dynasties made him an acceptable choice for the nobles of the realm who were growing weary of internecine quarrels.

Their involvement was crucial in the Abkhazian war and in October 1993 the Georgian government suffered a decisive military defeat, after which most of the ethnic Georgian population of the region was driven out by ethnic cleansing.

During the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the early 1990s, Gagulia was a member of the Abkhazian Defense Committee, which was responsible for, among other things, the distribution of food, at a time when Abkhazian forces only controlled a section of the country.

In 1972, he fulfilled his military service, worked as the head of a sovkhoz following which he became instructor with the Abkhazian regional committee of the Komsomol.

* 2007 Georgia helicopter incident: On the night of 11 March 2007, three MI-24 attack helicopters bombarded the village of Chkhalta, which serves as the temporary headquarters of the Government of the Abkhazian Autonomous Republic.

The Georgian – Abkhazian conflict refers to the ethnic conflict between Georgians and Abkhazians in Abkhazia, which is a de facto independent, partially recognized republic.

Exploiting the situation, Prince Kwirike II of Kakheti ( 939 – 976 ), which is now the easternmost region of Georgia, raided Kartli, hitherto under the authority of the Abkhazian kings, and laid siege to its rock-hewn stronghold Uplistsikhe.

Alasania continued working on Abkhazian issues, and with through his efforts, the UN General Assembly discussed the issue of displaced persons due to the conflicts in Georgia and passed resolution GA / 10708 which recognized the right of return by refugees and internally displaced persons to Abkhazia as well as restitution of property.

* Abkhazian ( Achma ) khachapuri, which has multiple layers and looks more like a sauceless lasagna

* Loo, 18 km from the city center, was once owned by Princes Loov, a noble Abkhazian family claiming patrilineal descent from King Anos, whose royal title was sanctioned by Emperor Heraclius in 623 AD.

Sergei Kiriyenko was born in 1962 in Sukhumi, the capital of the Abkhazian ASSR of the Georgian SSR, and grew up in Sochi, in southern Russia.

Viacheslav Tsugba was born on 1 January 1944 in the village of Aatsy in the Gudauta district of what was then the Abkhazian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

From 1973 until 1975, Tsugba was 1st secretary of the Abkhazian regional committee of the Komsomol, from 1975 until 1978 he was 1st secretary of the Ochamchira raikom of the CPSU, and from 1978 to 1989 Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Abkhazian ASSR.

From 2000 until 2004, Sergei Bagapsh was the managing director of the Abkhazian state-owned power company Chernomorenergo.

The vassalage was, however, largely nominal, and both Mingrelian and Abkhazian rulers not only successfully fought for their independence, but contested borders with each other and with Imereti.

After the death of the Abkhazian prince Zegnak circa 1700, his principality was divided among his sons.

He was appointed as a Professor in the Department of Modern History at Abkhazian State University in the same year, and through the early 1990s, served as a visiting scholar in a number of universities around the world, including Johns Hopkins University and Maryland University in the United States and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, often dealing in topics associated with the civil war in his homeland.

From 1996 to 1999 Ozgan was a member of the Abkhazian government, first as Minister for Foreign Affairs and then as Minister for the Economy and First Vice-Premier.

Abkhazian Regional Academy of Sciences ( ARAS ), independent scientific and educational organization, was founded in 1995, in Tbilisi ( Republic of Georgia ), by the group of famous scientists-refugees from Abkhazia.

The village of Lata was taken by Abkhazian forces on 24 and 25 March, 1994.

According to the Moscow Agreement, signed in May 1994, the ceasefire line was drawn to the north-east of it so, that the Upper Kodori Valley remained outside of the control of Abkhazian authorities.

In the Soviet era Abkhazia was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( Abkhazian ASSR ), an entity within the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic ( Georgian SSR )

* Abkhazian Kingdom

The Abkhazian Kingdom was then under the rule of Theodosius III the Blind, a weak and inauspicious king, who was Bagrat ’ s uncle by his mother ’ s side.

The design of the red canton is based on the banner of the medieval Abkhazian Kingdom.

The duchy was established in 876 by Liparit I of the Baghvashi, who had been expelled by the Abkhazian kings from his fiefdom of Argveti in Upper Imereti.

* 2010 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician ( b. 1945 )

* 1810: Russia acquires Sukhumi through a treaty with the Abkhazian dukes, and declares a protectorate over the whole of Abkhazia.

* Russia acquires Sukhumi through a treaty with the Abkhazian dukes, and declares a protectorate over the whole of Abkhazia.

Additionally, Sochi has also served as the location for the signing of many treaties, especially those between the Georgian, separatist Abkhazian, and separatist South Ossetian governing authorities.

Furthermore, it is spoken by thousands of members of the Abkhazian diaspora in Turkey, Georgia's autonomous republic of Adjara, Syria, Jordan and several Western countries.

Stability in the region is further deteriorated by the fact that the Georgian refugees from the Abkhazian war zone ( who are considered by Georgians as victims of ethnic cleansing ) are mostly Megrelians.

Georgian scholar George Anchabadze noted that this coincided with a major Abkhazian revolt, and is comparable to various earlier mass revolts in the South Caucasus by Georgians, Abkhaz, Transcaucasian Avars, Azeris, Talysh and Lezghins.

Among other science academies of Georgia are: the Abkhazian Regional Academy of Sciences ( founded in 1995, in Tbilisi ), the Georgian Academy of Agrarian Sciences ( founded in 1991, in Tbilisi ), and the Georgian Academy of Bio-Medical Sciences.

Separatism in Abkhazia has also affected the Church: the Eparchy of Sukhumi, regrouping Abkhaz clergy, proclaimed in 2009 its secession from the Georgian Orthodox Church to form a new Abkhazian Orthodox Church ; this move remained however unrecognized by any other orthodox authorities, including the Russian Orthodox Church.

In August 2008, the Abkhazian military did take the upper Kodory Valley by force during the August 2008 war over South Ossetia.

Ashot ’ s successors continued fighting for the Kartlian lands, contested also by the Abkhazian dynasty of western Georgia ( Egrisi ), the Arab emirs of Tbilisi and even by Kakhetian ( kingdom in eastern Georgia ) and Armenian rulers.

With the strong intention to unite all Georgian lands, he adopted Prince Bagrat ( the future king Bagrat III ), a grandchild of Bagrat Regueni, also being an Abkhazian heir apparent.

As perhaps the only opposition group with the capability to challenge the Abkhazian government, they have been threatened at various times.

He has been a strong advocate of Abkhazian reunification with Georgia.

Mikhail's deportation, and death not long after, also marked the beginning of the end for Abkhazian self-governance for the next 140 years.

In 1978, Bagapsh became responsible for information in the central committee of the Komsomol's Georgian branch and in 1980, first secretary of the Abkhazian regional committee.