Kraljevina Abhazija

Postojala je, ispočetka kao bizantski vazal/klijentska država, a potom kao nezavisni entitet od oko 8. vijeka do početka 11. vijeka kada se preko dinastijskih brakova sa bagratidskom dinastijom utopila u gruzijsku državu Tao-Klardžeti.

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2. Graham Smith, Edward A Allworth, Vivien A Law, Annette Bohr, Andrew Wilson, Nation-Building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands: The Politics of National Identities, Cambridge University Press (September 10, 1998), ISBN 0-521-59968-7
3. Encyclopaedia of Islam^{[mrtav link]}
4. (en) Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, Aspects of the Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict
5. (ru) Вахушти Багратиони. История царства грузинского. Жизнь Эгриси, Абхазети или Имерети. Ч.1
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7. (en) Conflicting Narratives in Abkhazia and Georgia. Different Visions of the Same History and the Quest for Objectivity, an article by Levan Gigineishvili, 2003
8. (en) The Role of Historiography in the Abkhazo-Georgian Conflict Arhivirano 2016-03-03 na Wayback Machine-u, an article by Seiichi Kitagawa, 1996
9. (en) History of Abkhazia. Medieval Abkhazia: 620-1221 by Andrew Andersen
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11. Ronald Grigor Suny, The Making of the Georgian Nation: 2nd edition (December 1994), Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-20915-3, page 45
12. Robert W. Thomson (translator), Rewriting Caucasian History: The Medieval Armenian Adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles: The Original Georgian Texts and Armenian Adaptation (Oxford Oriental Monographs), Oxford University Press, USA (June 27, 1996), ISBN 0-19-826373-2
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