State
Principality of Abkhazia
historical state
- This boundary
- 1463–1570
- Founded
- 1463
- Ended
- 1570
- Capital
- Sokhumi
- Languages
- Georgian
- Preceded by
- Kingdom of Imereti
- Succeeded by
- Russian Empire
Overview
The Principality of Abkhazia emerged as a separate feudal entity in the 15th–16th centuries, amid the civil wars in the Kingdom of Georgia that concluded with the dissolution of the unified Georgian monarchy. The principality retained a degree of autonomy under Ottoman and then Russian rule, but was eventually absorbed into the Russian Empire in 1864, following the Caucasian War.
Records (3)
- 1462–1490 — Georgian civil war of 1463–1490War
- 1779 — Battle of RukhBattle
- 1809 — Battle of MaltakvaBattle
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