"During the reigns of his succesors, the borders of the Georgian Kingdom expanded still wider from Nicopsia (a city between modern Sokhi and Tuapse) to Derbent (on the Caspian Sea) and from Ossetia (North Caucasus) to Mt. Ararat in Armenia."
And the Abkhaz are all over in the writing.
Both are historically a part of Georgia since medieval time.
Thanks for the primer but in medieval times, of course, the Mongols ruled Russia and China and the Greeks ruled Turkey. That period was so long ago that provides little to no help to judging the current situation. I am more interested in the last eighty years, especially the period since 1991. What is the record for that period?