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Being the mother church in the Caucasus, Pitzunda, then Pityus, continued to be the seat of the Catholics of Abkhasia until the Twelfth Century. Practically, the Abkhases are at present heathens.
Between Mingrelia and Abkhasia courses the Ingur, and if we ascend to near its water-shed a journey easily accomplished on horse-back, say from Sougdidi, the well-known military station we should find ourselves amongst a very wild and singular people, the Svanni, whose complete subjugation dates back no farther it may be said than 1876, although they made a formal submission in 1833.
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