• written Abkhaz literature appeared relatively recently in the beginning of the 20th century although Abkhaz oral tradition is quite rich. Abkhaz share with...
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    The Abkhaz alphabet is a Cyrillic alphabet used for the Abkhaz language. Abkhaz did not become a written language until the 19th century. Up until then...
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  • Nart saga (category Abkhaz literature)
    The Nart sagas (Abkhaz: Нарҭаа ражәабжьқәа; Nartaa raƶuabƶkua; Adyghe: Нарт тхыдэжъхэр, romanized: Nart txıdəĵxər; Ossetian: Нарты кадджытæ, Нарти кадæнгитæ...
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    Abkhazians (redirect from Zamurzakan Abkhaz)
    A large Abkhaz diaspora population resides in Turkey, the origins of which lie in the Caucasian War in the late 19th century. Many Abkhaz also live...
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  • list of literature pages categorized by country, language, or cultural group. Sometimes these literatures will be called national literatures because...
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    literature Åland literature French literature - also Francophone literature Breton literature Occitan literature Georgian literature Abkhaz literature Chechen...
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    Abkhazia (category Articles containing Abkhaz-language text)
    against the host. The written Abkhaz literature appeared relatively recently, in the beginning of the 20th century. However, Abkhaz share the Nart sagas, a...
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    Dmitry Gulia (category Articles containing Abkhaz-language text)
    considered to be one of the founders of Abkhaz literature. He is often called “The Father of Abkhazian Literature”. Dmitry Iosif-ipa Gulia was born to a...
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  • Sandro of Chegem (category Abkhaz literature)
    Gospel According to Sandro, is a picaresque novel (or a parody thereof) by Abkhaz author Fazil Iskander, written in Russian and first published in the west...
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    albanianliterature.net. "The pioneer in everything and the patriarch of Abkhaz literature: about Dmitry Gulia". World Abaza Congress. "The Colour Of Pomegranates"...
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  • families of the Caucasus: the Northwest Caucasian languages (Circassian, Abkhaz and Ubykh); the Northeast Caucasian languages such as Chechen and Avar;...
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  • Tbilisi, but triggered tensions in the Abkhaz ASSR (Abkhazia), an autonomous republic in northwest Georgia, where Abkhaz Communist officials protested against...
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    of the writer Dmitri Gulia who was one of the founders of modern Abkhaz literature. After graduating from the Transcaucasian Institute of Railway Engineers...
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  • Taif Ajba (category Articles containing Abkhaz-language text)
    Taif Ajba (Abkhaz: Таиф Аџьба) was an Abkhaz language poet from Abkhazia. Ajba was born on 11 March 1939 in the village of Achandara, Gudauta District...
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  • The Abkhaz State Archive (Abkhaz: Аҧсны Аҳәынҭқарра аҳәынҭқарратә архивтә усбарҭа, romanized: Apsny Ahwynthqarra ahwynthqarratº arhivtº usbartha; Russian:...
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    formed in 1922. The SSR Abkhazia was abolished in 1931 and replaced with the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Georgian SSR. During its...
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  • Alexey Gogua (category Maxim Gorky Literature Institute alumni)
    Gogua (Abkhaz: Алықьса Ноча-иҧа Гәагәуа; born 15 March 1932 in Gup village, Ochamchira District, Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia) is an Abkhaz writer...
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    Sukhumi (category Articles containing Abkhaz-language text)
    tree". In Abkhaz, the city is known as Aqwa (Аҟәа) which is believed to derive from a-qwara (а-ҟәара), meaning "stony seashore". According to Abkhaz tradition...
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    Vladislav Ardzinba (category Articles containing Abkhaz-language text)
    Vladislav Ardzinba (Abkhaz: Владислав Арӡынба, Georgian: ვლადისლავ არძინბა; 14 May 1945 – 4 March 2010) was the first de facto president of Abkhazia. A...
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    spreading to the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world, associated with literature ascribed to the mythical Thracian poet Orpheus, who descended into the...
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    the Aq Qoyunlu Confederation of Turkic tribes against the Georgians, the Abkhaz, and the Greeks in Trabzon. The 16th-century poet, Fuzuli produced his philosophical...
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    Fazil Iskander (category Articles containing Abkhaz-language text)
    Iskander distanced himself from the Abkhaz secessionist strivings in the late 1980s and criticised both Georgian and Abkhaz communities of Abkhazia for their...
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    Abkhaz women: One draped with the flag of the Republic of Abkhazia, and the other clothed with a dress that was designed based on the flag....
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    Outline of Abkhazia (category Articles with Abkhaz-language sources (ab))
    Sites in Abkhazia: None Art in Abkhazia Cinema of Abkhazia Literature of Abkhazia Abkhaz literature Music of Abkhazia Television in Abkhazia Theatre in Abkhazia...
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    root; however, Chirikba (1986) regards the latter as being of Abkhaz origin ( ← Abkhaz agər-wa 'lower cast of peasants; slave', literally 'Megrelian')...
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    their relationships with indigenous Abkhaz. Abkhazia portal Afro-Russians Afro-Turks Black people African diaspora Abkhaz people African admixture in Europe...
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  • Culture of Abkhazia (category Articles containing Abkhaz-language text)
    Abkhazia (Abkhaz: Аҧсны Apsny, Georgian: აფხაზეთი Apkhazeti or Abkhazeti, Russian: Абха́зия Abkhazia) is a de facto independent, partially recognised country...
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    as a dialect of Adyghe or of an overarching Circassian language. Ubykh, Abkhaz and Abaza are somewhat more distantly related to Adyghe. Shapsug dialect...
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    Ambisagrus, Loucetios (Gaulish mythology) Armazi (Georgian mythology) Afi (Abkhaz mythology) Atämshkai (Moksha mythology) Gebeleizis (Dacian mythology) Horagalles...
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    Indra (section Literature)
    Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs. Princeton University Press. p. 329. ISBN 978-1-4008-6528-4...
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