Examples of using Abkhaz in English and their translations into Malay
{-}
-
Colloquial
-
Ecclesiastic
-
Computer
Under Ottoman rule, the majority of Abkhaz elite converted to Islam.
Abkhaz and Georgian generals in the Imperial Russian Army, 19th century.
Archived from the original on 23 July 2009.↑"Abkhaz Leadership, Opposition Exchange Accusations".
Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken in Georgia and Turkey.
Archived from the original on 17 September 2008.↑Saakashvili Outlines Tbilisi's Abkhaz Initiatives.
They sided with the Abkhaz separatists to fight against the Georgian government.
Sixteen Georgians are said to have been killed andanother 137 injured when they tried to enroll in a Georgian university instead of an Abkhaz one.
The Georgian- Abkhaz dispute turned violent on 16 July 1989 in Sukhumi.
As the Soviet Union began to disintegrate at the end of the 1980s,ethnic tensions grew between the Abkhaz and Georgians over Georgia's moves towards independence.
Abkhaz is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken mostly by the Abkhaz people.
Notwithstanding UN Security Council's call for the immediate cessation of hostilities and its condemnation of the violation of the ceasefire by the Abkhaz side, fighting continued.[51] After ten days of heavy fighting, Sukhumi was taken by Abkhazian forces on 27 September 1993.
Abkhaz forces, with armed support from outside Abkhazia, launched attacks on Sukhumi and Ochamchira.
Georgia signed a treaty with Russia for protection against the Ottoman Empire in 1773 and was seemingly absorbed, while Abkhazia sought protection from Russia in 1801, but was declared as"an autonomous principality" by the Russians in 1810.[28][29] Russia then annexed Abkhazia in 1864, and Abkhaz resistance was quashed as the Russians deported Muslim Abkhaz to Ottoman territories.[1][19][28].
Abkhaz, North Caucasian militants, and their allies committed numerous atrocities[52] against the city's remaining ethnic Georgians, in what has been dubbed the Sukhumi Massacre.
Despite the peacekeeping status of the Russian peacekeepers in Abkhazia, Georgian officials routinely claimed that Russian peacekeepers were inciting violence by supplying Abkhaz rebels with arms and financial support.
The Abkhaz forces quickly overran the rest of Abkhazia as the Georgian government faced a second threat: an uprising by the supporters of the deposed Zviad Gamsakhurdia in the region of Mingrelia(Samegrelo).
Under Gamsakhurdia, the situation was relatively calm in Abkhazia and a power-sharing agreement was soon reached between the Abkhaz and Georgian factions, granting to the Abkhaz a certain over-representation in the local legislature.[45].
Many Abkhaz opposed this, fearing that an independent Georgia would lead to the elimination of their autonomy, and argued instead for the establishment of Abkhazia as a separate Soviet republic in its own right.
The Georgian side is"onceagain urged to address seriously legitimate Abkhaz security concerns, to avoid steps that could be seen as threatening and to refrain from militant rhetoric and provocative actions, especially in upper Kodori Valley.".
According to the Abkhaz officials, more than 26,000 passports were distributed in Gali, Tkvarcheli and Ochamchire districts, including about 23,000 of which were given out since Russian recognition of Abkhazia's independence in August, 2008.
In the case of Basayev, it has been suggested that when he and the members of his battalion came to Abkhazia, they received training by the Russian Army(though others dispute this), presenting another possible motive.[50] In September, the Abkhaz and Russian paramilitaries mounted a major offensive against Gagra after breaking a cease-fire, which drove the Georgian forces out of large swathes of the republic.
Abkhaz officials announced that a significant number of residents of Gali, Ochamchire and Tkvarcheli districts received Abkhaz passports while at the same time retaining their Georgian citizenship, which constituted a"violation of the law on Abkhaz citizenship".
It urged the leadership of the Abkhaz side to address seriously the need for a dignified, secure return of refugees and internally displaced persons and to reassure the local population in the Gali district that their residency rights and identity will be respected.
The Abkhaz were relatively unarmed at this time and the Georgian troops were able to march into Sukhumi with relatively little resistance[48] and subsequently engaged in ethnically based pillage, looting, assault, and murder.[49] The Abkhaz units were forced to retreat to Gudauta and Tkvarcheli.
The policy of repression was eased after Stalin 's death[ 19] and Beria 's execution, and the Abkhaz were given a greater role in the governance of the republic.[ 19] As in most of the smaller autonomous republics, the Soviet government encouraged the development of culture and particularly of literature. The Abkhazian ASSR was the only autonomous republic in the USSR in which the language of the titular nation( in that case Abkhazian) was confirmed in its constitution as one of its official languages.[ 42].
In August 2008, Abkhaz forces fought against Georgian forces during the Russo-Georgian War, which led to the formal recognition of Abkhazia by Russia, the annulment of the 1994 ceasefire agreement, and the termination of the UN mission.
Simmering ethnic tensions between the Abkhaz- the region's"titular ethnicity"- and Georgians- the largest single ethnic group at that time- culminated in the 1992- 1993 War in Abkhazia which resulted in Georgia's loss of control of most of Abkhazia, the de facto independence of Abkhazia, and the mass exodus and ethnic cleansing of Georgians from Abkhazia.
Many Abkhaz interpreted this as an abolition of their autonomous status, although the 1921 constitution contained a provision for the region's autonomy.[46] On 23 July 1992, the Abkhaz faction in the republic's Supreme Council declared effective independence from Georgia, although the session was boycotted by ethnic Georgian deputies and the gesture went unrecognised by any other country.
Abkhazia was made a Socialist Soviet Republic(SSR Abkhazia) with the ambiguous status of a treaty republic associated with the Georgian SSR.[1][34][35] In 1931, Joseph Stalin made it an autonomous republic(Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic or in short Abkhaz ASSR) within the Georgian SSR.[19] Despite its nominal autonomy, it was subjected to strong direct rule from central Soviet authorities.
The Abkhaz military defeat was met with a hostile response by the self-styled Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus, an umbrella group uniting a number of movements in the North Caucasus, including elements of Circassians, Abazins, Chechens, Cossacks, Ossetians and hundreds of volunteer paramilitaries and mercenaries from Russia, including the then-little-known Shamil Basayev, later a leader of the anti-Moscow Chechen secessionists.
