title: The Abkhazian and Mingrelian Principalities: Historical and Demographic Research
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metadata.value: Cherkasov, Aleksandr A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Koroleva, Larisa A.
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metadata.value: Bratanovskii, Sergei N.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Valleau, Annick
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-12-27T14:39:45Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-12-27T14:39:45Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Cherkasov A. А., Koroleva L. A., Bratanovskii S. N., Valleau A. The Abkhazian and Mingrelian Principalities: Historical and Demographic Research. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 4, рp. 1001–1016.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.402
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15204
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article examines the historical and demographic aspects of the development of the
  Abkhazian and Mingrelian principalities within the Russian Empire. The attention is drawn to
  the territorial disputes among rulers over the ownership of Samurzakan. The sources used for
  this study include documents from the State archives of Krasnodar Krai (Krasnodar, Russian
  Federation), the Central state historical archive of Georgia (Tbilisi, Georgia), statistical
  data of the 1800s–1860s on Abkhazia, Mingrelia and Samurzakan, as well as memoirs and
  diaries of travelers. The authors came to the following conclusions: 1) the uprising of Shikh
  Mansur in 1785 led to the adoption of new religious rules among the population of Circassia
  and Abkhazia. As a result, Islam began to spread in Abkhazia. At the time, Islam did not,
  however, reach Samurzakan and Mingrelia. Both territories remained Christian; 2) as soon as
  the Abkhazian and Mingrelian principalities were annexed to the Russian Empire, the ruling
  princes started greatly overestimating the local population rates. They believed that there were
  on average at least 9–10 people per household on the territories they ruled. In reality, there
  were 4,7 people per household in Abkhazia and about 7 in Mingrelia; 3) the beginning of the
  process of decentralization, which was characteristic of the Circassian tribes, can be illustrated by the Abkhazian principality, where it was very awas accompanied by the emergence of
  independent estates. By contrast, Mingrelia was not subject to decentralization processes;
  4) the decision to attach the Russian administration to the Sukhum Military Department of
  the Samurzakan pristavstvo in 1864 was taken to create an inter-confessional balance between
  the strongly Islamized Abkhazia and Christian Samurzakan.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Abkhazia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mingrelia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Principalities
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Samurzakan
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: 1800–1860s
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Abkhazian and Mingrelian Principalities: Historical and Demographic Research
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metadata.value: Article
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