Sadz
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The Sadz or Asadzwa, also Jigets, are a subethnic group of the Abkhazians. They are sometimes purported to have originated from the Sanigoi tribe mentioned by the Classic authors. In the 6th century, they formed a tribal principality, which later commingled with the Abasgoi, Apsilae and Missimianoi into the Kingdom of Abkhazia.
Until 1864 Sadz lived at the
Sadzyn area, which consisted of the possessions of Kamysh, Arydba, Amarshan and Gechba clans, under the hegemony of Tsanba clan. The Ubykh princes Oblagua, Chizmaa and Dziash
also originated from the Sadz.
Some think that in the 12-14th centuries a part of the Sadz have been forced to resettle to the
Sadz dialect of the Abkhaz language is spoken only in Turkey
. It consists of Akhaltsys and Tswyzhy subdialects.
The Sadz, Aibga and
Ahchypsy and Aibga, who lived in and around of what is now Krasnaya Polyana
.
References
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