Questions of Abkhazian history in the book by P. Ingorokva ‘Georgi Merchule - Georgian writer of the 10th century’, by Zurab V. Anchabadze
Questions of Abkhazian history in the book by P. Ingorokva ‘Georgi Merchule - Georgian writer of the 10th century’, by Zurab V. Anchabadze
Proceedings of the Abkhazian Institute of Language, Literature, and History named after D.I. Gulia. Vol. XXVII. - Sukhum, 1956. pp. 261-278.
The article is a critical review of a work by Pavle Ingorokva on the history of Abkhazia and the Abkhazian Kingdom. The review highlights several shortcomings of Ingorokva's work, including his lack of knowledge of historical facts and sources, his misuse and misinterpretation of sources, and his attempt to erase the history and ethnic identity of the Abkhaz people.
Pavle Ingorokva, who argued that today's Abkhazians arrived in Transcaucasia only in the 17th century, displacing and taking the name of history’s ‘true’ Abkhazians, who were a Georgian tribe. This calumny was revived in the heady days of Georgian nationalism from 1988 and is still widely believed by many ordinary Georgians.
Zurab Anchabadze (Achba) (1920, Gagra - 1984, Sukhum) - a historian specialising in Caucasian studies, organiser of higher education, honoured scholar of the Abkhazian ASSR (1961), Doctor of Historical Sciences (1960), Professor (1963), Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR (1980).
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