Abkhazians of African descent

Afro-Abkhazians
Photo of an Afro-Abkhazian family from Caucasus
Regions with significant populations
Currently Abkhazia, formerly Adzyubzha
Languages
Russian, Abkhazian, Georgian, Mingrelian

Abkhazians of African descent or Afro-Abkhazians, also known as African Caucasians, were a small group of people of African descent in Abkhazia,[note 1] who used to live mainly in the settlement Adzyubzha at the mouth of the Kodori River and the surrounding villages (Chlou, Pokvesh, Agdarra and Merkulov) on the eastern coast of the Black Sea.[1][2]


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  1. ^ Zinaida Richter, Adzyubisa (1930)
  2. ^ [1] (in Russian) Archived December 31, 2009, at the Wayback Machine