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- ↑ Allen, W.E.D. (2023). A History of the Georgian People: From the Beginning Down to the Russian Conquest in the Nineteenth Century. Routledge. p. 28. ISBN 9781032436890.
The Abkhaz were known to the classical geographers as Apsilai, and later as Abasgoi.
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