My video on the history of Georgia kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gZlki7SG39jWoH0.html Hi this is Epimetheus! This is my second channel where I will be posting additional content. Some will be addendums to videos over on the main channel(Epimetheus) like this video. And some less formal or short form content. Subscribe here let me know the type of stuff you would like to see here in the future.

Wow! With the combined two videos, I think you gave more attention to Georgia than half KZfaq combined!

As a Georgian from Abkhazia, I can say this is surprisingly accurate.

small nation constantly being invaded by great empires and still surviving time after time.Every great empire will fall but georgia will remain.

You're the best history youtuber. Great art and explanations

Thank you for this video! Very informative and well put together! Got Bless.

One of the best videos regarding this subject, splendid job

Dude your content is righteousness, I am always stoked to see a new video from you

Thanks again! This was information I had never before heard. Such great artwork, too.

Great content!

Informative, Thank you

Good Job

great video loved it

Thanks the Author for such a objective description of the multifaced issue.

Thank you for this video. I am from Hawaii but always enjoyed learning about autonomous regions around the world.

Great videos . Studied geography at school but still learned a lot.

Just what I needed answered! How did you read my mind, I love your videos! Thank you Epimetheus

I am ossetian and my motherland is georgia 🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪♥️ all ossetians and georgians are brothers

Excellent video once again Epimetheus.

Abkhazian Muslims did not deported from the Ottoman border. They deported into the Ottoman border; like Circassians. Their numbers were less than Circassians but still prominent. Today Turkey has the largest Abkhazian diaspora.

Great video, Epimetheus :-) I'm thrilled to hear about surviving Iranian people in Europe - contemporaries to the ancient Greeks, Thracians, Persians, Romans, Goths... - thought they dissolved and eventually disappeared following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Fascinating that some Alanic heritage seems to be still traceable. 👍🏽

Im from Abkhazia, me and my family was kicked out from our home. I just was 2 year old.

I was born i russia and am finding out i am half russian or Ukrainian and either Abkhasian or Meskhesian Turk. I was born in 1995 and really wonder how my parents would have gotten together. I was born in moscow too. Also thank you for this video. Very cool and very informative!

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4:28 there are 2 Abkhazian peoples nowadays. 1.Georgians from Abkhazia who have their own subculture as every other region in Georgia. 2. Apsuas/Adyghe people who are one of the Circassian tribes. People who want independence are this Apsuas. Nobody really knows how they got to live in Abkhazia cause they are northern caucasian people. Most popular theory for Georgian and western historians is that they imigrated from north in 14th to escape mongol wrath or to raid Georgian kingdoms(wich was what the other north caucasian people were doing at that time).

Epimetheus, I love the background! I got a new monitor and was wondering if you could share/post the image so I can use it as a wallapper. Thanks!

I like how you get to the point and just lay out the important highlights that explain the big picture instead of little details that would require reading books to understand.

i like your maps

Thanks

Could you do a video explaining the histories of the north caucasian peoples?

well done my friend. IF you come to georgia, good wine on me :)

:bravo..crucial info and chill art

The recognizers of abkhazia must be the most random assortment of countries.

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The Ossetians might have the most popular pagan movement of any ethnic group. Paganism is now the second largest religion in North Ossetia behind Christianity.

Very informative video. There are some technical and factual mishaps though, but it is understandable that it's difficult to fit in everything in a 9 minute video. One thing that is very important is that the population currently living in Abkhazia and South Ossetia are NOT natives of the land by any means. They were moved to the region by the Soviet Union, as Stalin's plan to Divide and Conquer. USSR did this in all 15 republics that were part of USSR. They would move populations around, to ensure that they would not rebel. They wanted to keep the ethnic hostilities always a possibility. Today's populations of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are forcibly moved people. They removed the Georgians in those regions and housed these other tribes in their lands, thus creating a timebomb that exploded in the 90's. It ensures that Russia always has a foothold and a powerbase in the southern Caucasus. Same in Karabkh region, Same in Crimea and so on.

Thank you for the video. I as a Georgian will add few things. 1) "South Ossetia" is obsolete instead please use "Tskhinvali Region" and it is not autonomous republic anymore. Secondly Georgians became victims of ethnic genocide in Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region by Abkazians and Ossetians with aid of Russia. And one more thing you said that sub-Georgian ethnicities Megrelians and Svans moved in Abkhazia after Russians expelled Muslim Abkhazians. Both Megrelians and Svans lived in modern day Abkhazia since ancient times. Gaius Plinius Secundus (Ist century) CE and Arrian of Nicomedia (Ist century CE) and Memnon of Heracela mention tribe of Sanigs who lived in and around Sebastopolis (modern Sukhumi) this are proto-Svans. We have family names such as Sanikidze, Sanikiani, Sanigiani and Sanaia all related to Sanigs. Also Aghathias Scolasticus (VI century CE) describes tribe of Misimians who were also proto-Svan tribe living in Kodori gorge.

When I first heard of Georgia as in the country, I thought it was part of the US state of Georgia. This was when I was a kid.

gonna watch soon, but there is another disputed area rn as well, Gareja region which is disputed by georgia and azerbaijan rn. Its very important for Georgia since there are 2 old monasteries of Georgia.

adjara isnt a real problem for georgia

So was this to much information for the main video?

Will you do the same just with China?

What different between abkhazia and abazania ( abazins ).

As an apsua I think we should have taken Georgian side and asked for an autonomy region for apsuas

This comment might be not seen but that is important to mention that the Abhazians are not sub ethnic group of Geaorgians. Some georgians say that There is two type of Abhazians one is Georgian Abhazians which was never mentioned in any historical documents as georgian ethnic group. Second one are Apsua invaders from north those are living right now in Republic of Abhazia. But the right thing is that Abhazians/Apsua people are aboriginal people of that region. They belong to Adigo-Abhazian language group. I am my self Circassian(Adiga). And many Circassians fought for freedom of Abhazia, but Russia came and annexed Abhazia. Abhazia must be independent from both Russia and Georgia.

In February 1921 Democratic Republic of Georgia was attacked and occupied by the Red Army. On February 25, 1921 the Red Army entered the capital Tbilisi and installed a Moscow directed communist government. In April 1922 by way of gratuity to Ossetians (which lived in Georgia at that time) for supporting of Soviet army Lenin created the "South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast" - artificial created district in the hurt of Georgia! Before April 1922 notion "South Ossetia" never existed in the history - Ossetians always has the state on the NORTH SIDE of The Main Caucasian Ridge.

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Adjara is just a region of Georgia but it has it own ruler. That's why it has Georgian flag

1 correction. Megrelians and Svans (Georgians) have lived as a majority in Abkhazia for thousands of years. That land was the ancient Georgian land of Colchis first and foremost.

Gagimargos dzmao, you are very good.

You forgot to mention that there is a tunnel that connects north osetia to souith osetia(samachablo) that russians built during soviet times; making it the easiest region to reach from the outside. That pos shevardnadze is responsible for its construction.

Can you do a roblox series on this channel?

For Adjara, it was actually first republic of Georgia who granted autonomous republic status as long as there still lived Muslim Georgians and socialists thought they should have had autonomy. Apart from that, there was really tough situation with Turkey but in the last moment, Muslim elite of Adjara, who were ethnic Georgians, preferred ethnicity and nationality over religion and opted to stay within republic of Georgia rather than being part of Turkey. Therefore, it was kinda like returning the favour from the central government to grant them autonomous status. Later, Soviet Georgia just inherited the legacy. Kinda same for Abkhazia, Abkhazians in 1918 preferred to stay within Georgian borders and somehow to get rid of Russian civil war. When Georgian general Mazniashvili entered the region to defend the borders and take administration responsibilities Abkhaz nobility granted him small cavalry regiment to support the cause. So again, autonomous status was reward for loyality towards Georgian central government. It was Bolsheviks who opposed Georgian rule there. For South Ossetia yes, it was completely made up by Bolsheviks as a reward for Ossetians helping red army annexing Georgia. Although Abkhazia has been separated duchy from Georgian kingdoms in later years, it was still part of Georgian political sphere, divided Georgia was just a common thing throughout 15th-18th centuries. Adjara was part of guria but not all of today's Adjara. Mountainous part was itself part of Samthkhe that was fully annexed. Guria owned just lowland Adjara. Ottomans didn't fully annex Giria itself, it still was nominal vassal of kingdom of Imereti, they just detached current Adjarian territory. Historically, Abkhazian territory also increased in size towards core Georgia. Up to Sokhumi, the capital of Abkhazia, it was considered duchy of Odishi ( modern day Mingrelia). Later Abkhaz dukes conquered territory from Odishi dukes, you can see this on many European maps of 16-18 centuries if you don't believe in Georgian sources.

será por eso que quieren introducir el multiculturalismo, donde se financian firmas por la ruta de la seda en todo el mundo. haciendo una posible asimilasion del centro de america y el centro de entre rusia y los demas paises hasta australia?.

So Georgia has been sacked 31 times.................. so far. What is the likelihood of it being ransacked again? Is it safe for me to set up in Kutaisi?

Apsua-Abkhazian people 70 000 right now there. . . In 1993 more than 300 000 peole was forced to leave teritorry

Abkhaz and Osetia is Georgia Love and support Georgia Greetings From Azerbaijan 🇦🇿✌🏻🇬🇪 ...

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Extremely accurate in regards to creation of separatist region of so called “ south Ossetia” . But Apsua mistakingly called Abkhazians have immigrated to Georgia from northern regions current day Russia

Abkhazia is not Georgia. Georgia is a US state

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Thanks for video. I want to say something about abkhazians origin. Twice is true, i mean today in abkhazia call themselves abkhazians people from north and kartvelian people. For example president of abkhazia aslan bzhania is ethnic Georgian. His surname bzhania is Georgian. Bzha in Georgian language means sun. Also defence minister of abkhazia is ethnic Georgia kishmaria. Also half of abkhazians are Georgians. Other part are adyga circassian people from north caucasus. Their language is afshila adyga circasian language. Abkhazia comes from Georgian region afkhazeti. It always rulled by Georgians, for example anchabadze,bagrationy, shavliani, shervashidze and so. There always lived Georgian speaking people there are hundreds Georgian architecture with Georgian alphabets. In 1990 in abkhazia lived 500 000 people. From them 350 000 were ethnic Georgians. In 1991-93 years 300 000 Georgians were displaced and 30 000 were killed. They did ethnic cleasing. Afkhazeti is Georgia tskhinvali is Georgia. 🇬🇪🇬🇪☝️

In April 1915, Turkish units supported by Muslim Georgian Laz and Adjarian irregulars attempted a raid on the Black Sea port of Batumi but were repulsed. The same year, Vorontsov- Dashkov sent General Lyakhov to slaughter the Muslim Georgian Laz and Adjarianს as a punishment for their pro-Turkish attitude. Lyakhov ravaged and depopulated the entire Chorokhi valley up to Artvin, in the vicinity of which only 7,000out of a previous population of 52,000 Georgian Muslims were left alive.

I am astounded how much research goes into such potentially polarized topics and still avoids the usual vitriol in the comments. You mist be doing something right.

I am Laz

Georgia started wars of aggression in 1992 and 2008. Lost all of them. That’s it.

Russia is the biggest problem in caucasus. These people have similar culture and traditions. There is not supposed to be problem between these people. No Russia = No problem

The Mongols also used Ossetians against Georgia. Then, when the influence of the Mongols weakened, King George finally expelled the Mongols from Georgia, and pushed the Ossetians to the North Caucasus.

Abkhazia and South osetia (Samachablo) are Georgia!

I think it's fair to point out that Adjara (Batum region as Ottomans and Russians were referring it to it) was among other regions Ottomans were willing to retake. Klarjeti and Samtskhe. To not dwell into unnecessary information, Adjara, Samtkshe and Klarjeti were first part of Russian Empire, then transferred into Transcaucasian Federation. The state was weak and was opportunity for Ottomans to seize those parts. At the end they managed to occupy three of them and were even present near to capital of Georgia. At the end, Federation was dissolved, British occupied Adjara and Ottomans left. At the end of the Republic's days, now Turkey, along with Bolshevik Russia invaded in 1921 and successfully defeating Georgia. As of Kars Treaty, both Russia and Turkey agreed that Russia will take entirety of Georgia (including Batumi and Samtskhe) but Turkey will take Klarjeti which is today's Artvin and Ardahan Regions. As a compromise for not taking Batumi, Russia created Autonomous Republic of Adjara withing Georgia.

wow thx for video it was soo intresting ! abxazia and samachablo is georgia !! gaumarjos saqartvelos ! ჩვენთან არს ღმერთი!

all i need to say is: thank you and my countrys 20% is occupaid by Russia

south ossetia was called "samachablo" before stalin renamed it

Georgia isn't a country it's a Republic of the most greatest almighty Soviet Union ( USSR). It's not Georgia it's Georgia SSR ( Soviet Georgia).

Origins of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q995q5mexKjWmJ8.html

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History of Turkey pls

Монголы также использовали осетин против Грузии. Затем, когда влияние монголов ослабло, царь Георгий окончательно изгнал монголов из Грузии, а осетин вытеснил на Северный Кавказ.

:.the mountanous terrain has proved a huge benefit to those with limited resources..sold..but gonna need wifi to keep earning..but sounds promising as retreat during collapse..Georgia is not nato right? Hope not..that's huge..stay out of nwo ruled countries..theyre being dep0pulated from many angles

Abkhazia and south ossetia are independent and not in control by Georgia

Locals populations against central auuthority can easily break off..bingo

actually, south Ossetia was offered autonomy, but they declined. so, it's not an autonomous region since 1991

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Abkazia ans South Ossetia are not under georgian control anymore.

Осетия всегда была что вы прицепились и всем твердите в 1920год а до етого тоже осетины жили всегда без грузин

Abkhazia is not Georgia. Georgia is state of USA.

:..ohh china cant invade thru georgia 'cause of the caucaus mountains see that the other draw..high altitude defense against invaders and rising sea levels

They are independent. Not autonomous Zones.

Adjara is georgia end nobody can occupied this city!!!!!

Georgia - failstate

6:42 we didn't leave, we got kicked out.

One misconception here is that Abkhazian means Georgian same as Kakhetian means georgian it's just subregional division of Ethnic Georgians or Kartvelians how we call it. However, separatist group who knowdays lives in Abkhazia and is called Abkhazians are not really Abkhazians and in fact, they call themselves Apsuas not Abkhazians, Abkhazian kingdom was created by ethnically kartvelian or simply georgian people, not by Apsuas who imigrated in the region in around 16th century from northen caucasus due to help of Ottomans to destabilize the region, they were both Muslims so basically had help from Muslim Ottomans to immigrate into the region, have a supportive population there and destabilize the region.So, to colcude those so called Apsuas are not indigenous population of Abkhazian region, Abkhazia is a Georgian name, it's Georgians(Kartvelans) who call them Abkhazians while that separatist groups calls themselves Apsuas, so if they really were indigenous population of the region, why they would name it Abkhazia rather than Apsua, it's completely nonsense

long live independent Ossetia!

South Ossetia has never been an autonomous republic. It was an autonomous oblast during the Soviet period. Today, Georgia has only two autonomous republics, the Autonomous Republics of Abkhazia and Adjara.

welcome to Abkhazia - the Land of Soul

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Barely anybody lives in these places they should calm down