#Abkhazia

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From Henk Van Rensbergen's book Abandoned Places

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Gegsky Waterfall, Gagra, Abkhazia: Gegsky waterfall is one of the most picturesque and visited places in Abkhazia Georgia's breakaway autonomous republic. Located in the gorge of the Gega River, this waterfall amazes with its power and beauty, being a real miracle of nature. The Gegsky waterfall rises to a height of about 70 meters, and its waters flow rapidly... Gagra is a town in Abkhazia/Georgia, sprawling for 5 km on the northeast coast of the Black Sea, at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains. Wikipedia

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I took the retro train to go to Gagra (Abkhazia) yesterday. It's 60 km to the south from where I'm staying, but it takes 3 hours because of border control. The train is really nice, the dining car is made to look like 1980s and there's an open carriage! Apparently, there are only three carriages like that in Russia (others are in Karelia and somewhere in Siberia).

The view from the window is amazing the whole time because the route goes along the coastline.

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Offroad camping in Abkhazia

Georgia

1991

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New Athos Monastery - ABKHAZIA

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ABKHAZIA

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Photo by _Chrome_

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My fellow Americans seem to forget that the United States illegally overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii, threw the Queen in jail, annexed the land, and gave the Native Hawaiians the same treatment that was done with the Native American tribes. Today, they are complaining about Vladimir Putin, and thought every region in the ex-Soviet countries was going to be okay being disconnected from the Russian mainland. He doesn't suppress the Ukrainian or Georgian language. His country isn't the one with the most military bases around the world. He prefers a multi-polar world unlike the uniparty that exists in the United States of America.

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Руины санатория «Гульрипш» Николая Николаевича Смецкого. Абхазия.

Красный корпус

Белый корпус Руины двух корпусов туберкулезного санатория «Гульрипш» дореволюционной постройки находятся недалеко от автодороги в 10 км к юго-востоку от Сухума.

В 1913 г. Смецким был построен четырёхэтажный Красный корпус из 112 комнат на 250 мест. На то время это здание было самым большим в Абхазии. Рядом был устроен огромный сад, где росли кокосы, агавы, акации. Про это здание существует забавная легенда. Якобы жена Смецкого сама была больна туберкулезом, и от одного врача он услышал совет: сделайте так, чтобы каждую ночь она спала на новом месте, где воздух чист от бацилл. Для этого и был построен дом-дворец из 365 комнат, который помог женщине выздороветь.В 1914 году Смецкий передал Красный корпус Красному Кресту для лечения инвалидов войны. Белый корпус в 1916 году был передан Министерству просвещения для лечения учителей и учащихся. В 1922 году дворцы национализировали и устроили в них санаторий имени Ленина.

Ruins of the sanatorium "Gulripsh" of Nikolai Nikolaevich Smetsky.

The ruins of two pre-revolutionary buildings of the Gulripsh tuberculosis sanatorium are located near the highway 10 km southeast of Sukhum. In 1913, Smetsky built a four-story Red building of 112 rooms with 250 seats. At that time this building was the largest in Abkhazia. Nearby there was a huge garden where coconuts, agaves, and acacias grew. There is a funny legend about this building. Allegedly, Smetsky’s wife herself was sick with tuberculosis, and from one doctor he heard advice: make sure that every night she sleeps in a new place where the air is clear of bacilli. For this purpose, a house-palace of 365 rooms was built, which helped the woman recover.

In 1914, Smetsky donated the Red Corps to the Red Cross for the treatment of war invalids. The White Building was transferred to the Ministry of Education in 1916 for the treatment of teachers and students. In 1922, the palaces were nationalized and a sanatorium named after Lenin was built in them.

Вот как эти строения выглядели раньше, архивные фото.

This is what these ruins looked like before, archival photos.

Источник : :https://ru-abandoned.livejournal.com/1690647.html

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Gagra, Abkhazia. Photo postcard by V. Panov (1969).

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Controversial origin of Halime Sultan

For many years the life of Halime Sultan had been a mystery. Not only her place of birth,but even her period in harem and tenure as Valide was unknown. Many thought the mother of Mahmud was killed along with him, some said she survived, but was banished. Even her Muslim name was unknown and was mentioned as fulane sultan for quite a long time, until it was found that she was called Halime sultan.

Like almost everything about her life her origin was mostly a mystery, However today it is accepted that she was from Caucasia, particularly from Abkhazia. However, that doesn't make everyone clear about her ethnicity. Confusion mainly comes because the term "Abkhazian" might include several people: Native Abkhazians, who settled here in ancient times, there were two major tribes in Abkhazia ubykh-abkhazs(genetically closer to Circassians) and Georgian-abkhazs(almost genetically identical to western Georgians). However, the number of people in each tribe varied from time to time, however generally Georgian-abkhazians were more loosely-settled, mainly because during the rise of civilization during iron age,pre-classical and classical antiquity, when Abkhazia was part of first Kingdom of Colchis and then kingdom of Egrisi(lazica), both were kartvelian kingdoms, created after unification of native Kartvelian tribes that lived there, two kingdom covered teritories from todays Abkhazia to some parts of eastern Anatolia. Therefore, Georgian-abkhazs promoted that time. In 697, the kingdom of Egrisi devided, into the de-facto kingdom of Abkhazia from 697-780's and the official kingdom of Abkhazia from early 780's to 1008 that included not only modern Abkhazia,but whole teritories of modern eastern Georgia and parts of Turkey and Russia . The official language of the pre 780's kingdom was Georgian, was ruled by Georgian-abkhaz Nobel families and was almost entirely settled by Georgians. After the 780s it was even more dominated by Georgians and that was time, when on the territories of the modern days republic of Abkhazia along with Georgian-abkhazs and ubykh-abkhazs western Georgians actively started to settle. From 1008 to 1490's it became part of the united kingdom of Georgia. After the 1490s it was invaded by Mongolians and divided into western and eastern parts. That is a period when Circassians slowly started to enter Abkhazian territories. Now back to the topic, up until late sixteenth century Abkhazia was Georgian dominated land, in 1570's same time as ottomans, many Circassian tribes started infiltrating Abkhazia and unlike peaceful natives, started to invade homes of weakened Georgians and as a result during the climax of invasion in 1580-90's mass slave trade burst out and thousands of Georgian-abkhaz and mingrelian girls found themselves in ottoman slave market.

Halime sultan was born around 1568-70, therefore in 1580-90's she could have been anywhere from 10-12 to 20-22 years old, considering Mehmed III received his sanjak in 1583, Halime was likely gifted to him that or next year, at very least she was already favourite in 1586, so she was bought quite before that time. So perhaps she was freshly brought little Georgian in the Ottoman slave market? Everything in this theory fits, her age, statistics, fact that slave markets were flooded by Georgians suggest that when we say that Halime was Abkhaz, it means Georgian-abkhaz, not Ubykh-abkhaz and definitely not non-native Circassians.

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Veryovkina Cave - GIORGIA

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ABKHAZIA