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Summary: TRUTH OR NOT
Review: An excellent and scholarly study on the Abkhazians and the hidden or unknown truths of The Caucasus.A must for anyone who wants to understand the fascinating yet complex world of the Caucasus
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Summary: Learn the real history of Abkhazia...
Review: George Hewitt, a well-known scholar in the prestigious London University, has enlightened the truth about Abkhazians, the nation that has been misintroduced to the world by the deviated stories of the Georgians for hundreds of years. After reading this book, people will learn the real history of this big nation that has survived, for now, the genocide attempts of Georgians who have always disregarded the real identity and origins of Abkhazians. Anyone who would like to live with the realities, and not intentionally made up histories and lies, buy this book and recommend it to as many people as possible around you. As an Abkhazian saying says: 'May God make all people happy but not forget Abkhazians, too.'
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Summary: ABKHAZIAN IS A REGIONAL NAME OF ETHNIC GEORGIANS
Review: GEORGIA derives from two Georgian(Cartuli) words:GE-means 'on earth. on the ground' and d'orgi--means 'to plant a tree, a flower etc. These are in the ancient Georgian dialect called Margali. Margali also means 'to plant a tree etc. in earth, in the ground. In the most ancient Georgian dialect Svanuri 'l'Iver' means the earth(the ground, the land that is cultivated), hence all those words: Georgia, Margali.Iveria mean the nation, ethnicity that has invented or has greatly contributed to the agriculture. The Georgians are an agriculturist nation. Cardu was an ancestor of all ethnic Iverians, Margals(Megrels),Georgians. 'Abkhaz' is a regional name of ethnic Iverians(Megrels. Abkhazeti(Abkhazia in English) is an ordinary region of Iveria(Georgia). The Georgians that live in the Georgian region Abkhazia are called 'Abkhazian Georgians', Abkhazians. The Georgians that live in another region of Georgia, say, in Guria, are called Gurians(the president of Georgia Mr. Eduard Shevardnadze is regionally from Guria, but ethnicly the Iverian, the Georgian, though many persons were shocked to learn that he wrote in his documents when he worked in Russia that he was not Georgian, but another nationality. The first president of Georgia Mr. Zviad Gamsakhurdia was Megreli regionally and ethnically Georgian; his father's mother was Abkhazian--i.e. regionally Abkhazian and ethnically Georgian. Abkhazia was and is the bulluork of the Iverian(Georgian, Megruli) ethnicity and in the middle ages the word 'Abkhazeti' was identical to the word 'Georgia' used today. Abkhazian dynasty of Georgia was the Georgian dynasty whose members derived from the Georgian region Abkhazeti. This ABC about Abkhazians is absolutely distorted in G. Hewitte's book 'The Apsua Abkhazians'--that is the full name of that book. On the cover is a photo of the Georgian elderly man. The truth in that book is reversed. There is not the conflict between Abkhazia AND Georgia, as Abkhazia is Georgia and the International community must not back the putchists entetained and raised in the universities of Russia where they learned writing lies. The word 'nation' in the encyclopedias is explained as a LARGE group of persons that differ from their neighbors in the mother tongue, habits, culture. Only 8 thousand persons were registered as being 'REAL ABKHAZ' in 1835 according to Frederick Dubois's 'Voyge to the Caucasus' printed in French in 1839 and based on the unpublished official information obtained by him from a Russian official--an occupant of Georgia. In the archives of Georgia there are documents that prove that the government of the Soviet Georgia applied to the Statistical department of the USSR in Moscow to register so-called Abkhaz persons correctly--as ethnic Georgians. This document was sent to Moscow in 1927. The truth concerning Abkhazia was rehabilitated when Mr. Lavrenti Beria was Head of the Republic of Georgia in the thirties and afterwards when he was moved to the Department of the Defence of Caucasus region when he and I. Jugashvili were main figures that defeated Fascism in the world. Ingratitude to these leaders is abomonable. L. Beria peacefully muved the unwanted recent immigrants from Georgia to their homelands in the east of the USSR. Eltsin and V. Putin committed the genocide of hundreds of various ethnicities and are starving the population to death . G. Hewitte does not mention that the Apsua ethnicity lived far from Abkhazia and it is unnatural to identify those Apsuas (insignificant number of the new arrivals pushed into Caucasia from the Urals area and ajacent regions after the Suvorov and Catherine II of Russia occupied the lands of the Kazakhs, the Cossaks, of the Cabardians (these lived far from the region called Cabarda in Soviet times and today). The basicideas are reversed in G. Hewitte's book. In "Genocide in Abkhazia' the author Mr. Tamaz Nadareishvili--himself an Abkhaz( i.e. regionally Abkhaz, ethnically Georgian as all Abkhaz are) published ample material on the subject that Russia invaded Abkhazian region of Georgia and Abkhazians and other Georgians--from other regions of Georgia are victims of the Russian aggression. G. Hewitte writes that Georgins invaded Abkhazia and that is not true. A scientist should help rehabilitate peace and truth. G. Hewitte's book does only harm, distorts both history and today of the Georgian region called today Abkhazeti, but called in former centuries another name--Samegrelo, Imereti.
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Summary: Awesome Contribution, but Biased
Review: I see that the reviews for this book are polarized - not surprised. Well, this book is biased in favor of the Abkhazians, for additional info about that you can look up its review in the Academic Journal _Slavic Review_. However, I'm neither Georgian nor Abkhazian, and I'm doing research on the Caucasus for my MA in Russian and East European Studies, and this book is invaluable! If you can mentally offset his bias as you read, which is pretty obvious, by the way, then you will find the information in this volume extremely valuable, especially for being in the English language.
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Summary: The truth and than Georgians
Review: It is interesting to read about Georgian intellectuals (?) approach to a written book. Stop it, junk it, put them off the shelves. He even suggests London University to revoke his tenure and having Mr.Hewitt loose his job. This should give some idea about Georgians tolerance level about different ideas. During the conflict in Apsini(Abkhazia), one of the Georgian minister's idea to solve problem was to give up 100,000 Georgian lives if necessary to kill all Apsuas(Abkhazians). It is almost impossible for these two people to live together in harmony if one party has absolutely has no tolerance for other parties pure existence. This book will give you some frame work about Georgians and their mentality. You will also understand why Georgians to this day have conflict with Armenians, Turks, Abkhazians and yes with Jews. Mr.Irakli should check to see how many Jews would like to stay in Georgia if they had a choice. Number of Jews requested to leave from former USSR, Georgian Jews are the largest percentage in entire former Soviet Republics. Read this book and learn the truth. Xora cemal (Apsua not Georgian)
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Summary: How cool?
Review: Mr. Hewitt showed again his competency in understanding interrelated caucasian people and their problems. It is a masterpiece of years of research.
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Summary: The truth
Review: Professor Hewitt has not mentioned few things: in 1992 and 1993 Abkhazians, with the help of Russians, conducted an ethnic cleansing of the peaceful Georgian population, up to 10,000 people were killed in one day (09-27-93). They drove 250,000 Georgians from their homes and declared a willingness to join Russia. Professor Hewitt would never mentioned that. His willingness to falsify the history of Georgia is based on his personal attitude and feelings to this country.
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Summary: a real work
Review: Reading the reviews about the book you might come across some cheap and detestable judgments like the one Dr. Chavchavadze has written. Anybody who has some degree of knowledge about Abkhazia knows that such judgements represent the official Georgian stance, which all of the Georgian governments have pursued for decades. I am sure that the current Georgian government has paid these puppets enough so that the truth about the decades-old Georgian chauvinism could be prevented from being known by the international community. It is quite amazing to see that they have gone as far as requesting the University of London to dismiss Mr. Hewitt or asking St. Martin's Press to stop the sale of the book. You can ban books but you cannot ban the truth. Brains' path is one and it is sad that they cannot see this. I salute George Hewitt with great respect and appreciation for his extensive contribution to the Abkhazian resistance against despotism.
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Summary: The Truth About Abkhazia Will Lead to Peace
Review: We salute Professor George Hewitt and offer our deep gratitude for his book, The Abkhazians. As a group of people who have studied the ancient spiritual and social tradition of the Caucasus Mountains for many years, we wish to acknowledge the historical and anthropological accuracy of Professor Hewitt's information concerning the ethnicity of the Abkhazian people. His information is factual and provides much needed education about an ancient nation little known outside its geographical area. Professor Hewitt's book is of great value as a voice which corrects the misinformation and misconceptions commonly perpetrated by the Georgians about the origins of the Abkhazian people. Professor Hewitt is to be highly commended for this scholarly source text. It is vital reading material for all who wish to learn about the culture and peoples of all the Caucasus in general and about Abkhazians in particular. Do not imagine that you know the truth about Abkhazia or the Abkhazians without reading this book. The Kebzeh Foundation, Vernon, BC, Canada
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