Sanigs
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| Northeastern Black Sea coast |
The Sanigs (Greek: Σάνιγκι) were a tribe inhabiting historical Heniochia, northwest shore of Kingdom of Colchis. Their ethnic identity is obscure and is the subject of a controversy.[1] They are first attested in the works of Pliny, Arrian[2] and Memnon of Heraclea.
Geography
[edit]Historical territories of Heniokhet-Sanikheti(Sanigia) was divided into three parts:
- old southern Heniochia, later coastal Abkhazia (which included the coastal zone from Sukhumi to Adler);
- Inner Heniochia (Sochi district);
- North Heniochia, later Jiketi of Abkhazia (Tuapsi region).
Sanigs inhabited the Inner Heniochia[3]
Origin
[edit]Georgian scholars, as well as a number of foreign scholars[4], consider them to be Kartvelian people, such as Zans (ancestors of Mingrelian and Laz peoples) or proto-Svans.[5] According to Arrian, they inhabited the area around Sebastopolis (modern Sukhumi). Roland Topchishvili links some modern Georgian surnames with the Sanigs (Sanikidze, Sanikiani, Sanigiani, Sanaia).[6]
Abkhazians consider the Sanigs to be the ancestors of the Sadz and Zhaney, as evidenced by the territorial settlement of these peoples.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ↑ Smith, Graham (1998). Nation-building in the post-Soviet borderlands: the politics of national identities. Cambridge University Press. pp. 55. ISBN 978-0-521-59968-9.
- ↑ Pauly, August Friedrich von; Christian Walz (1852). Real-encyclopädie der classischen alterthumswissenschaft. p. 2866.
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- ↑ ინგოროყვა, პავლე (1954). "გიორგი მერჩულე" (in Georgian). pp. 134–135.
- ↑ Rayfield, Donald (2012). Edge of Empires, a History of Georgia. London: Reaktion Books. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-78023-070-2.
- ↑ მიქელაძე თ., ძიებანი კოლხეთის და სამხრეთ-აღმოსავლეთი შავიზღვისპირეთის უძველესი მოსახლეობის ისტორიიდან (ძვ. წ. II-I ათასწლეულები), თბ., 1974.
- ↑ Topchishvili, Roland. "Svaneti and Its Inhabitants (Ethno-historical Studies)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-10. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ↑ "Ш. Д. Инал-ипа. Садзы (Москва, 1995; Сухум, 2014)". apsnyteka.org. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
- ↑ "Кунижева Л.З. Из истории формирования абазинского народа. | Апсуара". www.apsuara.ru. Retrieved 2024-03-04.