The Apsilae or Apsili were an ancient tribe inhabiting the territory of Apsilia, in modern Abkhazia. The tribal territory was located on the Black Sea...
inhabiting western region of Abkhazia, who originally inhabited lands north of Apsilae, corresponding to today's Ochamchira District. In 550, during the Lazic...
Zydritae; Lazai, subjects of King Malassus, who owned the suzerainty of Rome; Apsilae; Abacsi; Sanigae near Sebastopolis. Laz has no official status in either...
the suzerainty of the Kingdom of Lazica. The Abkhazian view is that the Apsilae and Abasgoi are ancestors of the Abkhaz–Adyghe group of peoples, while...
presence was confined to the ports. According to Arrian, the Abasgoi and Apsilae peoples were nominal Roman subjects, and there was a small Roman outpost...
languages that are related to the Georgian language) and Abkhaz (Abasgoi, Apsilae, and Zygii) peoples. It seems likely that a significant proportion of the...
formed a tribal principality, which later commingled with the Abasgoi, Apsilae and Missimianoi into the Kingdom of Abkhazia. Until 1864 Sadz lived at...
antiquity to early medieval archaeological culture in the territory of the Apsilae or Tsebelda tribe, located in Abkhazia, Georgia on the Black Sea coast...
Cappadocia Hecataeus of Miletus, Herodotus, Strabo, Stephanus of Byzantium. Apsilae modern Abkhazia Pliny, Arrian. Abasgoi western Abkhazia Pliny, Strabo,...
employed by classical authors. Most scholars identify Pliny the Elder's Apsilae of the 1st century and Arrian’s Abasgoi of the 2nd century with the probable...
Abkhazia. Some scholars argue that it was part of the principality of Apsilae in the ancient period. During the period of Russian rule in Abkhazia up...
Black Sea. Numbered amongst these were the Machelones, Heniochi, Zydretae, Apsilae, Lazi, Chalybes, Tabal, Tibareni, Mossynoeci, Macrones, Mushki and Marres...
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