Sanigs

Sanigi
Regions with significant populations
Northeastern Black Sea coast

The Sanigs (Greek: Σάνιγκι) were a tribe inhabiting historical Heniochia, northwest shore of Kingdom of Colchis. Their ethnic identity is obscure and is the subject of a controversy.[1] They are first attested in the works of Pliny, Arrian[2] and Memnon of Heraclea.

Geography

Historical territories of Heniokhet-Sanikheti(Sanigia) was divided into three parts:

  • old southern Heniochia, later coastal Abkhazia (which included the coastal zone from Sukhumi to Adler);
  • Inner Heniochia (Sochi district);
  • North Heniochia, later Jiketi of Abkhazia (Tuapsi region).

Sanigs inhabited the Inner Heniochia[3]

Origin

Georgian scholars consider them to be Zans (ancestors of Mingrelian and Laz peoples), while others maintain that they were proto-Svans.[4] According to Arrian, they inhabited the area around Sebastopolis (modern Sukhumi). Roland Topchishvili links some modern Georgian surnames with the Sanigs (Sanikidze, Sanikiani, Sanigiani, Sanaia).[5]

Abkhazians consider the Sanigs to be the ancestors of the Sadz and Zhaney, as evidenced by the territorial settlement of these peoples.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ Smith, Graham (1998). Nation-building in the post-Soviet borderlands: the politics of national identities. Cambridge University Press. pp. 55. ISBN 978-0-521-59968-9.
  2. ^ Pauly, August Friedrich von; Christian Walz (1852). Real-encyclopädie der classischen alterthumswissenschaft. p. 2866. Seeräubern treibendes Bolk deö affaiischen Sarmatien an der Küste dt« 5',' zwischen den SanigS und AchSi (Arrian. II)
  3. ^ ინგოროყვა, პავლე (1954). "გიორგი მერჩულე" (in Georgian). pp. 134–135.
  4. ^ მიქელაძე თ., ძიებანი კოლხეთის და სამხრეთ-აღმოსავლეთი შავიზღვისპირეთის უძველესი მოსახლეობის ისტორიიდან (ძვ. წ. II-I ათასწლეულები), თბ., 1974.
  5. ^ Topchishvili, Roland. "Svaneti and Its Inhabitants (Ethno-historical Studies)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-10. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
  6. ^ "Ш. Д. Инал-ипа. Садзы (Москва, 1995; Сухум, 2014)". apsnyteka.org. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  7. ^ "Кунижева Л.З. Из истории формирования абазинского народа. | Апсуара". www.apsuara.ru. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
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