Abkhaz
Britishnoun
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Also called: Abkhazi. Abkhazian. a member of a Georgian people living east of the Black Sea
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the language of this people, belonging to the North-West Caucasian family
Example Sentences
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The gallery’s estimated 4,000 artworks were mostly stored in poor conditions, unprotected and jammed into small rooms and narrow halls, according to the news website Abkhaz World.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2024
Abkhaz authorities did not respond to a request for comment.
From Reuters • Oct. 5, 2023
Although Moscow's stated aim was to protect Russian speakers, most residents are native speakers of Ossetian and Abkhaz respectively.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2014
Though he was an ethnic Abkhaz, he married into a large Georgian family, and remained on good terms with his in-laws even as Abkhazia’s separatist war in the early 1990s tore the country apart.
From New York Times • May 30, 2011
Georgian forces were driven out of the Abkhaz region in September 1993 after a yearlong war with Abkhaz separatists.
From The 1995 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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