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	Samegrelo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samegrelo (Mingrelia) is an historic province in the western part of the republic of Georgia, formerly also known as Odishi.
		Samegrelo is bordered by the rebellious province of Abkhazia to the north-west, Svaneti to the north, Imereti to the east, Guria to the south and the Black Sea to the west.
		In the 16th century-1857 the independent Principality of Samegrelo was under the rule of a Georgian dynasty Dadiani and the patronage of the Ottoman Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mingrelia (444 words)

	Samegrelo - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Samegrelo (Mingrelia) is a historic province in the western part of the republic of Georgia, formerly also known as Odishi.
		In 16th century-1857 the independent Principality of Samegrelo was under ruling of Georgian dynasty Dadiani.
		In December of 1803 the Principality came under the patronage of the Russian Empire by agreement between the Tsar and the Megrelian Prince Grigol Dadiani.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Mingrelia (483 words)

	Republic of Georgia
		As is known, at the end of the 15th century, the unified Georgian state disintegrated into four independent states: the Kingdoms of Kartli, Kakheti, and Imereti and the Principality of Samtskhe, Abkhazia was part of the Kingdom of Imereti.
		Abkhazian was within the Principality of Samegrelo (Odishi), and in the 17th century it (Abkhazia) constituted itself as a separate principality headed by the Shervashidzes.
		At the end of the 17th century, the Abkhaziaan princes seized the part of Samegrelo lying between the Kodori and the Inguri rivers, annexing it to the Principality of Abkhazia.
	www.angelfire.com /ga/georgian/history.html (6867 words)

	Abkhazia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		At the time of the last Soviet census in 1989 it had a population of around 500,000, of whom 48% were Georgians (principally from Mingrelia) and only 17% of whom were native Abkhazians.
		In 1993, a major war led to Abkhazia breaking away from Georgia, during which virtually the entire Georgian population—some 250,000 people—were displaced in what was alleged to be a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
		The separatist forces quickly overran the rest of Abkhazia as the Georgian government faced a second threat, an uprising by the supporters of the deposed Zviad Gamsakhurdia in the region of Mingrelia (Samegrelo).
	www.casimiro.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/ab/abkhazia.html (2493 words)

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		Samegrelo (Mingrelia), the political organization representing the eponymous west Georgian region, adopted on 29 November at its fourth congress a resolution criticizing the Georgian government's track record during its two years in power, Caucasus Press reported.
		Samegrelo leader Aleksandre Chachia specifically deplored Georgia's pro-NATO orientation, which he argued only serves to antagonize Russia, which retaliates by actively seeking to prevent a solution to Georgia's conflicts.
		Samegrelo also called on the government to undertake measures to improve socioeconomic conditions in the region, and to introduce the study of the Mingrelian and Svan languages at university level.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2005/11/2-tca/tca-301105.asp (1820 words)

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		Abkhazia covers an area of about 8,600 km² at the western end of Georgia, on the north shore of the Black Sea.
		The Caucasus mountains on the north and northeast divide Abkhazia from Circassia; on the southeast it is bounded by Mingrelia (Samegrelo); and on the southwest by the Black Sea.
		The republic is extremely mountainous (nearly 75% is classified as mountains or foothills) and settlement is largely confined to the coast and a number of deep, well-watered valleys.
	abkhazia.to.md /information.html (540 words)

	Armenian News - PanARMENIAN.Net \| Armenian News Agency - PACE Called Upon Yerevan, Tbilisi and Baku to Grant Legal ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The number of displaced persons is put at 237,069 a figure, which shows little variation.
		According to statistics gathered during the visit to Georgia, this figure includes 224,938 persons from Abkhazia alone, who are unevenly distributed between the regions of Georgia, with a very strong presence in the Tbilisi and Samegrelo (Mingrelia) areas.
		The number of persons displaced from the former autonomous oblast of South Ossetia is put at 12,131; the same remark may be made about their distribution between the regions of Georgia, with very high densities in Tbilisi and Kartli.
	www.panarmenian.net /news/eng/?nid=17389 (468 words)

	South Caucasian Human Rights Monitor - July 2000
		Several members of the former Supreme Council (of the time of Gamsakhurdia) and recently amnestied political prisoners came to the ombudsman’s office yesterday to tell her that the authorities had killed Akaki Eliava to provoke a revolt in the Samegrelo region and blame it on "Zviadists" in order to deal with them.
		They asked Nana Devdariani, the ombudsman, to find out the whereabouts of Eliava’s three comrades-in-arms, who had accompanied him in the night of his death: Zurab Gvazava, Soso Sanaia and Ghia Zarkua, for they might provide some vital information about the circumstances of his death.
		At a governmental sitting some days ago Mr Bondo Djikia, the President’s authorised representative in the Samegrelo Region (Mingrelia), accused independent mass media, especially printed ones, of preparing people psychologically for anti-governmental actions, which, in his words, might soon burst out in Mingrelia.
	www.eurasianet.org /resource/georgia/links/07-1.html (4724 words)

	Avtandil Menteshashvili - Some national and ethnic problems in Georgia (1918-1922)
		Out of a great number of Abkhazian landowners who separated from Georgia when the latter was divided into appanages, only two were Moslems: Zurab-Bei who had been expatriated to Turkey when he was a boy, and his heir Kelesh Akhmet-Bei who was born and bred in Turkey.
		We beg Your Excellency to notice that both in the past and at present the dwellings, clothing, food, farming tools, agricultural methods are absolutely alike in Abkhazia and Samegrelo.
		Most of the place-names are Georgian; most of the inhabitants admit their Mingrelian or Georgian origin and have even kept their Georgian and Mingrelian family names.
	sisauri.tripod.com /politic/abkhazia.htm (13351 words)

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		The region is extremely mountainous (nearly 75% is classified as mountains or foothills) and settlement is largely confined to the coast and a number of deep, well-watered valleys.
		The mass killings and destruction continued for two weeks, leaving thousands dead and missing.
		In the chaotic aftermath of defeat, almost the entire non-Abkhazian (mainly ethnic Georgians) population fled the region by sea or over the mountains escaping a large-scale ethnic cleansing initiated by the victors.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Abkhazia (3461 words)

	Georgia_(country) - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
		The principality of Guria was abolished in 1828, and that of Samegrelo (Mingrelia) in 1857.
		The west-central slopes of the Meskheti Range in Ajaria as well as several regions in Samegrelo and Abkhazia are covered by temperate rain forests.
		Between 600-1,500 meters (1,968-4,920 ft.) above sea level, the decidious forest becomes mixed with both broad-leaf and coniferous species making up the plant life.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Georgia_(country) (5555 words)

	Resolutions and Related Reports: Caucasus (Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia), Refugees and displaced persons in Armenia, ...
		The number of displaced persons is put at 237,0696, a figure which shows little variation.
		III.2 Specific problems raised during the visit to western Georgia
		The situation in Zugdidi, in Mingrelia, is particularly difficult in human terms.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/YAOI-6NL3UR?OpenDocument (8041 words)

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