Author and Chief-editor: Tamaz Diasamidze


Reviewer: Academician Levan Aleksidze


Translators and Editors: Salome Zviadaze and Irine Skhirtladze


Computer work provider: Ruslan Surmanidze


Jacket designer: Malkhaz Varshanidze



Collection was prepared and published through the grant provided by the Delegation of the European Commission in Georgia and Armenia


We would like to express our gratitude to the Delegation of the European Commission in Georgia and Armenia for funding the preparation and publishing of the Collection


The author of this collection is immensely grateful to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, the Staff of the State Minister of Georgia for Conflict Resolution Issues, the National Library of Georgia, the Archive of the Parliament of Georgia, the Central State Archive of the Recent History of Georgia, the OSCE Mission to Georgia, the Office of Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to Georgia, the Supreme Council of the Abkhaz Autonomous Republic (in exile), the State Library of the Russian Federation, and the Scientific Library of the Republic of North Ossetia for rendering support in the course of preparation of this collection.

Collection was prepared, collected and published by "Regionalism Research Center"

Book-jacket is designed after the book "Historic Atlas of Georgia in 1920-1921 Tbilisi, 2003" and Website www.c-r.org /accord

Collection should be indicated while using materials

E-mail: lelasaralidze@yahoo.com

tamdias@hotmail.com

Website: http://www.rrc.ge

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Printed in Georgia. Publishing House "GCI Ltd"


ISBN 99940-17-63-2


Tbilisi, August, 2005