Abkhas (Noun)
Meaning 1
A member of the Circassian people who live to the east of the Black Sea.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The Abkhas were ruled by various empires and finally gained independence in 1991 as Abkhazia.
- Abkhas is a language in the Northwest Caucasian group, spoken by approximately 100,000 people.
- Turks from the Ottoman Empire and other parts of the Caucasus were recruited to replace the displaced Abkhas.
- A 1992 census in Georgia recorded 7,000 Abkhas in the country.
- Most of the Abkhas fled their homeland after the Russo-Circassian War and were resettled especially in the Ottoman Empire and remaining communities were dispersed.
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Hypernyms
Meaning 2
Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- Circassians generally define their area east of the Black Sea by adding together parts to a framework taken to establish solid components composed predominantly by modern Russian figures particularly also local items abkhas live only off spring very firmly adjacent cities.
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