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	Mingrelians History and Cultural Relations
		Mingrelians now occupy part of a region that was known by ancient Greeks and Romans as Colchis or Lazica, and by western Georgians as Egrisi.
		The assimilation of Mingrelians by the Georgians, which accelerated in the nineteenth century under the impact of modernization, was completed after the Soviet annexation.
		Abkhazian and Mingrelian relations in the mixed southern regions of Abkhazia were soured by the Georgianization policies of Lavrenti Beria (a native of Mingrelia) in the 1940s and 1950s.
	www.everyculture.com /Russia-Eurasia-China/Mingrelians-History-and-Cultural-Relations.html (430 words)

	Mingrelia (Samegrelo) - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mingrelia (Samegrelo in Georgian) is a historic province in the western part of the republic of Georgia, formerly also known as Odishi.Mingrelia 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.
		Mingrelians (Megrelebi in Georgian) are one of the local culture-groups of ethnically subdivided Georgian people, who are speaking both Mingrelian and Georgian, but have only Georgian script.
		In December of 1803 the Principality came under the patronage of Russian Empire by agreement between the Tsar and the Mingrelian Prince Grigol Dadiani.
	www.iridis.com /Mingrelia (366 words)

	Ethnic conflict in Georgia, by Vicken Cheterian
		Because the inhabitants of Gali were Mingrelians, the ethnic minority of former President Gamsakhurdia, the Abkhaz leaders were prepared to agree to the return of the displaced civilians.
		Since the guerrilla forces were made up of Mingrelians, the hit squad that carried out the attack on Shevardnadze might have been a group originally trained by the Georgian secret services to attack Abkhaz targets (5), over which Tbilisi subsequently lost control.
		What Mr Shevardnadze is actually facing is a resurgence of the problem of the Mingrelians, the great losers in the history of the South Caucasus.
	mondediplo.com /1998/12/10georgia (1623 words)

	Abkhazia - The Black Sea, Ch. 10
		Their lands were taken by Christian Mingrelians from across the Inguri River in Georgia, a process which continued fitfully until 1949 when Mingrelians were compulsorily moved into Abkhazia to take over the farms and houses left by the deported Pontic Greeks.
		Almost all the Georgian and Mingrelian inhabitants abandoned their homes and followed the retreating Georgian forces, or were chased out by the Abkhazians and their ferocious allies as they reoccupied Sukhum.
		Mingrelians had lived here since 1945, when they were resettled from western Georgia.
	www.abkhazia.org /BlackSeaCh10.html (4670 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Laz and Mingrelians (Christian Laz) are a distinct Caucasian people related to the Georgians and the Svans.
		Ancient Colchis was roughly the area of the entire eastern Black Sea coast Abkhaz, Mingrelian and Ajar region of present Georgia including northeastern coast of Turkey.
		The language Lazuri is related to Mingrelian, a language of the southern Caucasus.
	intlctr.org /activity/lazmusic (904 words)

	Degenerate Magazine \| Beria Degenerate Chapter Three: The Company Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Beria was born a Mingrelian and not, as dim-witted but persistent neo-Nazis would later howl based on photographs and dog-eared copies of the local Klan Kronicle, a Jew.
		As of 1992, at least, before many Mingrelians were driven out of Abkhazia during the civil war there, a number of Beria's kinsmen survived and testified as to their clan's ethnic background.
		Mingrelians have long been looked down upon as the most backward peoples of Georgia - a distinction they shared with the Abkhaz, though little else ever was.
	www.diacritica.com /degenerate/9/beria3.html (1050 words)

	EBSCOhost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The case of Mingrelians and Svans in Georgia cited above is an example of this phenomenon.
		Hence the Lezgi of Azerbaijan rebel against the policies of assimilation they feel threatened by; the Mingrelians of Georgia, which for a long period of time have been in a process of assimilation into a Georgian identity, suddenly recall their distinctiveness; and the Ingush and Chechens, who virtually form one people, decide to split.
		Admittedly, this last case is politically motivated, as the Ingush believed that staying within Russia was necessary to achieve the aim of full territorial rehabilitation from the deportations, and the return of the Prigorodniy district, which since 1943 has been ruled by North Ossetia.
	www.silkroadstudies.org /pub/Cornell_PR_1997.htm (3347 words)

	Humanitarianism & War Project
		Personal experiences of ethnically based violence led to cycles of retribution, many of which were interrupted, but by no means finished, when the ceasefire was enacted in May 1 994.The outcome of the war was a near complete separation of Georgians and Abkhaz, with many harbouring deep mutual hostility.
		Prolonged displacement may be widening a potentially dangerous identity gap between the large numbers of displaced who are of Mingrelian (West Georgian) ancestry and the host population in other parts of Georgia.
		Increasing militancy within the displaced population may be due in part to the crystallization of a shared Mingrelian identity.
	hwproject.tufts.edu /publications/electronic/e_dar.html (2610 words)

	Mingrelians Sociopolitical Organization
		Mingrelia, as part of the former Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (the words "Soviet Socialist" have recently been dropped) and the USSR, was controlled by the Communist party.
		Rural Mingrelian society is seen as somewhat "provincial," although rural families are respected for their preservation of the "traditional" way of life.
		Mingrelians have always been on the frontline of Georgian conflict with their Moslem Turkish neighbors; the region has been invaded a number of times by the Turks, most recently in 1918.
	www.everyculture.com /Russia-Eurasia-China/Mingrelians-Sociopolitical-Organization.html (388 words)

	Sobaka :: Abkhazia: Independence Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Tbilisi, foreign journalists are firmly reminded by the Interior Ministry that the inhabitants of Gali are Georgian, and not to be identified by their ethnicity which is Mingrelian, a people who have lived there long before borders were drawn and speak their own language.
		While many non-Mingreli Georgians were forced to flee in the 1993 war, the majority of refugees were Mingrelians from Southern Abkhazia.
		A Mingrelian funeral ordinarily lasts from seven to ten days with meatless dishes and wine for hundreds of guests, but the economy can no longer support such frivolous traditions and many families are forced to bury their dead several days earlier than usual.
	www.diacritica.com /sobaka/2004/abkhazia.html (2712 words)

	Dzhodzhua
		It is well-known to all that during and after the time of Stalin the raising of the issue of the Mingrelians and generally of Mingrelia has been strictly prohibited.
		The Mingrelians were compelled to view themselves as Georgians, and this is why the issue of Mingrelia and the Mingrelians, which has been so sensitive for so many years, will sooner or later 'explode', and the longer it takes, the more bitter and savage will be the result.
		The Mingrelian language, which is today officially banned by the government, should be given official status (I have in mind its being allowed to serve as a literary language).
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Fuji/8160/Language/Nugzar.htm (878 words)

	Abkhazia - History of Abkhazia
		Modern Abkhazian historians maintain that large areas of the region were left uninhabited, and that many Armenians, Georgians and Russians (all Christians) subsequently migrated to Abkhazia, resettling much of the vacated territory.
		According to Georgian scholars, the Abkhaz are the descendants of North Caucasian tribes (Adygey, Apsua), who migrated to Abkhazia from the north of the Caucasus Mountains and merged there with the existing Georgian population.
		Either way, at the beginning of the 20th century demographics were such that in 1911 the Encyclopædia Britannica reported that in Sukhumi (population at the time 43 000), two-thirds of the population were Mingrelian and one-third were Abkhaz.
	www.abkhazeti.org /index.php?title=Abkhazia (3853 words)

	Post-war Developments in the Georgian-Abkhazian Dispute By George Hewitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For a variety of reasons, which are extremely pertinent to the recent tragedy of the region, the Abkhazians had been reduced to just over 17% of the population of their ancestral homeland by the time of the last Soviet census in 1989.
		As a gesture of goodwill to the Mingrelian speakers of this region the Abkhazians instituted a new trilingual newspaper in the summer of 1995.
		This attempt to do something to improve the self-pride of Mingrelians and make them aware of their distinct culture has been given no recognition in any Western comment that I have seen (and in Tbilisi it is regarded as a mere attempt to foster Mingrelian separatism).
	www.circassianworld.5u.com /postwar.html (9976 words)

	Joe Bob's America - Abkhazia? Would you mind spelling that, Mr. President?
		The Mingrelians hate the big bad Abkhazians who added insult to injury by treating them like mere Georgians instead of brothers in the ancient Colchis civilization.
		The goal of both the Abkhazians and the Mingrelians is ultimately to reestablish the kingdoms of Colchis and Kartli, which exist on maps at the British Museum pored over by antiquities scholars who would presumably have to be trundled down to Asia Minor to do the surveying on the reconstituted empires of three millennia ago.
		They also have a lost kingdom, but it's currently occupied by the Abkhazians and Mingrelians, which are in turn occupied by the Georgians, with the Russians on the way.
	www.joebobbriggs.com /jbamerica/2002/jba20020412.html (1566 words)

	Het volk van Lazistan
		Laz/Mingrelian is a South Caucasian or Kartvelian language with two varieties, Laz and Mingrelian, close to Georgian.
		There may be 1,2 million Mingrelians in Georgia, 500.000 speakers of the language.
		Georgian used as literary language.Officially considered to be asingle language with Mingrelian, called 'Zan', although linguists recognize that they are not inherently intelligible with each other.
	www.amarcord.be /georgia/lazuri01.html (608 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Host
		There is nothing to indicate that the first Christians thought of reproducing the appearance of the "loaves of proposition" of the Jewish Liturgy; they simply used the bread that served as food.
		The schismatic Armenians use an unleavened host about the size and thickness of a five-franc- or dollar-piece and bearing the stamp of a crucifix having on the right a chalice surmounted by a host and on the left a spear or a cross.
		The Mingrelians have a small, round host weighing a little over an ounce with a square stamp, the inscription signifying: "Jesus Christ is victor." The Confession of Augsburg maintained the use of small round hosts which the Calvinists rejected under pretext that they were not bread.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07489d.htm (4459 words)

	ABKHAZIA.ORG - Georgia: Contemporary Life and Politics
		Its 3 sisters are Svan, spoken in the NW province of Svaneti(a), Mingrelian, spoken in the W Georgian lowlands, and Laz, spoken almost exclusively along Turkey's Black Sea littoral from the Georgian border to Rize -- there are few Laz in Georgia but quite a few Georgians (= Imerxevian Georgians) in Turkey.
		The question of Mingrelian identity remains extremely sensitive; matters concerned with Georgian attitudes to Mingrelian language and separateness are addressed in my article 'Yet a third consideration of Völker, Sprachen und Kulturen des su/dlichen Kaukasus' in Central Asian Survey 14, 2, 285-310.
		Though never a proponent of Mingrelian distinctiveness, Gamsakhurdia came from Abasha in Mingrelia, and continuing support for him was concentrated in Mingrelia.
	www.abkhazia.org /georgia.html (3994 words)

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		The shift in the balance since 1886 between (especially) the Abkhazians and the Kartvelians (mainly Mingrelians) in the population of Abkhazia is in large measure explained by the forced immigration policy of non-Abkhazians into Abkhazia activated by (the Mingrelian) Lavrent\i Beria while he was still in charge of Transcaucasia in 1937.
		It is natural that he accepted the call to return home, for after his resignation and the course of events taken in Moscow, there was never likely to be any other role for him to play on the world\s stage, and this most chameleon of politicians was never anything if not ambitious.
		The situation is complicated by the Gamsakhurdia factor, as some of his Mingrelian supporters had kidnapped and secreted in the totally mingrelianised Abkhazian province of Gali two of Shevardnadze\s ministers.
	www.network54.com /Forum/message?forumid=382964&messageid=1116801700 (3601 words)

	Book Review
		There are many nationalities and ethnic groups living in Egypt, groups like the Mingrelians who were forced to flee when the Russian army invaded their homeland in the Caucasus.
		The Georgians too resent the Russians for wiping out their homeland and some of these groups work together to make a political statement by killing Nicholas with a bomb.
		There is a lot of subtle humor in THE MINGRELIAN CONSPIRACY, which is needed when the tension level of the story line reaches extreme levels.
	www.allreaders.com /BookRView.asp?BRID=48727 (282 words)

	About Laz and Mingrelians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The historical sites, where the Laz people has lived, were renamed.
		The Laz and Mingrelian languages are traced back to the ancient Colchian language by the linguists.
		The South Caucasian language familiy includes the Zan (Mingrelian and Laz language), the Svan language and the Georgian language.
	lahana.org /index.php?topic=219.0 (482 words)

	Blogrel » NGO Spies?
		And if you tell a Mingrelian that he is not a Georgian he will probably kill you.
		So Mingrelians are Georgians and many of the happened to live in Abkhazia along with genuine and not so genuine Abkhazians
		Katie Melua (if you have heard of her) she has a Mingrelian surname but she is from Batumi.
	www.blogrel.com /2005/05/12/ngo-spies (1680 words)

	Etext Library - Center on Religion and Democracy
		The inhabitants of Mingrelia, a former principality of Transcausia, became subject to Russia in 1804.
		The Mingrelians are closely akin to the Georgians.
		A caste or tribe on the west coast of India who form the dominant race in Malabar.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /etcbin/toccer-reldem?id=VaeDomi.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=back (448 words)

	The whatUseek Directory - Laz
		COLCHIS - The aborigines of eastern fl sea region: Laz, Mingrelian and Tzan.
		TITUS Caucasica: Map of Lazistan - The map of the Laz speaking area within Turkey.
		The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles - Profile for Mingrelians in Turkey.
	dir.whatuseek.com /Society/Ethnicity/Laz (158 words)

	Laz Caucasian Asian Ethnicity Society
		COLCHIS - The aborigines of eastern fl sea region: Laz, Mingrelian and Tzan.
		TITUS Caucasica: Map of Lazistan - The map of the Laz speaking area within Turkey.
		The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles - Profile for Mingrelians in Turkey.
	www.24up.org /Society/Ethnicity/Asian/Caucasian/Laz (82 words)

	What's New -- Historical & Political Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In addition, there is an area known as Mingrelia.
		The Mingrelians consider themselves to be part of the Georgian nation.
		Georgia, which is about the same size as South Carolina, borders Russia in the north, Azerbaijan in the west, and Turkey and Armenia in the south.
	www.geohistory.com /geoworld/politics.asp?Type=Article&TOPIC_ID=NATSTAT0034 (3164 words)

	House of Commons - Foreign Affairs - Minutes of Evidence
		Georgia is located on the southern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains with a Black Sea coastline.
		It has a population of 5.4 million, and a complex ethnic composition—71 per cent Georgian (including subgroups of Svanetians, Mingrelians and Ajars), 7.7 per cent Armenian, 6.5 per cent Russian, 6 per cent Azeri, 3 per cent Ossete, and 1.8 per cent Abkhaz.
		The radical nationalist Zviad Gamsakhurdia was elected President with 86.5 per cent of the vote after Georgians voted overwhelmingly (89.3 per cent) for independence in March 1991.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199899/cmselect/cmfaff/349/9052505.htm (1029 words)

	Human Understanding by John Locke
		In a part of Asia, the sick, when their case comes to be thought desperate, are carried out and laid on the earth before they are dead; and left there, exposed to wind and weather, to perish without assistance or pity.
		It is familiar among the Mingrelians, a people professing Christianity, to bury their children alive without scruple.
		There are places where they eat their own children.
	www.4literature.net /John_Locke/Human_Understanding/14.html (1037 words)

	MINGRELIA - LoveToKnow Article on MINGRELIA
		The country corresponds to the ancient Colchis; and Sukhum Kaleh on the Black Sea coast, which was the capital under the Dadian dynasty (1323-1694), is to be identified with the ancient Dioscunias, a colony of Miletus.
		The Mingrelians, who are closely akin to the Georgians, numbered 241,000 in 1902, and belong to the Orthodox Greek Church (see further KUTAIS and CAUCASIA).
		To properly cite this MINGRELIA article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MI/MINGRELIA.htm (98 words)

	Free Life, the Journal of the Libertarian Alliance
		A man would lose his all at gambling, or suffer some other reverse, and then, having inflamed himself with drugs, would run about stabbing people until he fell down or was cut down.
		How quaint, I thought, filing the Malays in my mind along with the Kallatioi who ate their dead parents, and the Mingrelians who ate their children.
		Each custom seemed to me as unlikely as the others, but might one day come in useful to impress an examiner.
	www.seangabb.co.uk /freelife/flhtm/fl15guns.htm (1483 words)

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