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Constitution of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Abkhazia of 1 April 1925 |
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Sunday, 17 June 2007 |
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1. After overthrowing a power of a former Georgian Democratic republic on the territory of Abkhazia, the workers, peasants and soldiers of a Red Army of Abkhazia have founded the Soviet Socialist Republic of Abkhazia and established sovereignty and dictatorship of the proletariat rendering all state power to the Councils of workers’, peasants’ and soldiers’ deputies.
4. The Abkhaz SSR, united on the basis of Union Treaty with the Georgian SSR, enters Trans-Caucasus Soviet Socialist Federative Republic through the Georgian SSR and as a member of latter, the USSR.
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Written by Sausryqua
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Sunday, 06 May 2007 |
AS AN OLD BOLSHEVIK, Nestor Lakoba couldn't have expected anything else. Like other Communist Party leaders in the Soviet Union but especially in the Caucasus, Lakoba rolled the dice with his future and his life every day. Until now, he had won every time.
Lakoba sided with Lenin against his Party enemies and reaped the rewards. He threw his weight behind Stalin in his battle with the leftists and the rightists and climbed over the bodies of the Party's enemies - real and imagined - to ever higher posts and accolades. Nestor Lakoba knew the rules by which the game was played. As an intelligent man, he also must have known that to keep playing the game would increase the odds that he would someday lose.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 06 May 2007 )
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Maykop Stone Plate in Abkhaz Language |
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History&Archaeology
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Written by Sausryqua
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Wednesday, 31 January 2007 |
 The archeological find was called in science as Maykop stone plate and its age was estimated in 3200 years. In the opinion of the scientists, in particular, Turchaninov (Leningrad) and N.Lovpache (Maykop), on the stone plate it was written down the time of foundation of a town on the territories of the modern capital Adygeya. Turchaninov decoded the inscription from the ancient Abkhazian language by means of the bibl letters, and Lovpache – from the Khettian. Those texts in due time had not been published by NatPress. Now we have an opportunity to fill that blank.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 31 January 2007 )
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Historical dispute rages over ancient Abkhazia |
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Written by Sausryqua
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Thursday, 11 January 2007 |
by Dario Thuburn
Tue Jan 2, 1:32 AM ET
In an ancient land on the lush shores of the Black Sea, archaeology has become a battleground for those who claim this territory as their own.
The history of Abkhazia, which broke away from Georgia in a 1992-1993 war, is no fusty academic debate. For the Abkhaz it is about the country's bid to be recognised as an independent state.
"We have to show people, the whole world, that Abkhazia has been a state for a long time," said Vadim Bzhaniya, the head of the Abkhazia's cultural heritage society.
"This is the task of archaeologists -- to show that Abkhazia is a real country," said Bzhaniya, a jovial historian who was one of the organisers of last year's First Abkhaz International Archaeological Conference.
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Written by Sausryqua
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Tuesday, 26 December 2006 |
Between the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age, in the early 1st millenium BC, two similar cultures, Koban and Colchaian, arose in the Caucasus. Remarkable bronzesmiths produced a range of objects which are now well represented in the Hermitage. This large collection of bronzes shows just how magnificently metalwork flourished in the Caucasus during the Prehistoric era.
The nucleus of the Koban collection is formed of articles discovered in 1869 in a burial mound in Northern Ossetia, in the aul or village of Koban. These include battle-axes, daggers, decorative items and other objects, astonishing in the diversity of their shapes, their faultless workmanship, elegant contours and remarkable sculptural qualities. Later, further sites were uncovered in the central Caucasus which provided more evidence of what is now referred to as the Koban Culture. Koban articles are diverse, but the most typical are bronze items of the 11th to 4th centuries BC.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 02 February 2007 )
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