Principality of Abkhazia

State · 1468–1829 CE · at its largest around 1700 CE

A principality on the eastern Black Sea coast ruled by the Shervashidze family, which emerged as Georgia fragmented and later came under Ottoman and then Russian control.

On its lands while it lasted

• Zugdidi (c. 1468 CE): Capital of Principality of Mingrelia (1468–1803).
• Sokhumi (c. 1468 CE): Capital of Principality of Abkhazia (1468–1810).

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