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Introducing Sukhumi
Abkhazia’s capital (Sokhumi in Georgian; Sukhum or Akua in Abkhaz) has a gorgeous setting on a bay backed by hills thick with luxuriant semitropical vegetation. Much of Sukhumi is still in ruins, but a lot of restoration is going on.
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Ruins of the Greek trading port Dioskuria lie beneath Sukhumi Bay. After periods of Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Abkhazian and Turkish domination, Sukhumi was taken by the Russians in 1810. By 1989 it had a population of 120, 000, but the city was badly damaged during the fighting between 1989 and 1993, when its large Georgian populationwas driven out.
Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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