- Ajaria
- or Adzharia geographical name autonomous republic SW Republic of Georgia on Black Sea capital Batumi area 1158 square miles (2999 square kilometers), population 381,500
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Ajaria
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Ajaria — A·jar·i·a (ə järʹē ə) See Adzharia. * * * ▪ autonomous republic, Georgia Introduction also spelled Adjara , Adzhariya , or Adžarija autonomous republic in Georgia, in the southwestern corner of that country, adjacent to the Black Sea and the… … Universalium
Ajaria — An autonomous republic of Georgia. During the Soviet era, Ajaria was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR) within the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. The region is dominated by ethnic Georgians known as Ajars, many of whom profess … Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation
Ajaria — Admin ASC 1 Code Orig. name Ajaria Country and Admin Code GE.04 GE … World countries Adminstrative division ASC I-II
Islam in Adjara — Ajaria or Adjaria is autonomous region of Georgia on border with Turkey. History Islam appeared in Ajaria between 1510 and the beginning of the seventeenth century when the Ottoman Empire started to expand in the Caucasus. As soon as Ajaria in… … Wikipedia
Aslan Abashidze — ( ka. ასლან აბაშიძე) (born Batumi, July 20, 1938) was the leader of the Ajarian Autonomous Republic in western Georgia from 1991 to May 5, 2004. He resigned under the pressure of the central Georgian government and mass opposition rallies during… … Wikipedia
2004 Adjara crisis — The Ajaria crisis refers to a political crisis in Georgia’s Ajarian Autonomous Republic, then led by Aslan Abashidze, who refused to obey the central authorities after President Eduard Shevardnadze’s ousting during the Rose Revolution of November … Wikipedia
Islam in Georgia (country) — Islam in Georgia was introduced in 645 A.D. when an army sent by the Second Caliph of Islam, Umar, conquered Eastern Georgia and established Muslim rule in Tbilisi. Muslims constitute 9.9%, or 463,062, of the Georgian population. There are two… … Wikipedia
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