Abkhazia is a break-away region of Georgia with about
250,000 inhabitants. It is situated in the north-western corner of Georgia with
the Black Sea to the south-west and the Caucasus mountains and Russia to the
north-east.
As the Soviet Union began to disintegrate towards
the end of the 1980s, ethnic tensions grew between the Abkhaz and Georgians over
Georgia's moves towards independence. This led to the 1992–1993 war in Abkhazia that
resulted in a Georgian military defeat.
Abkhazia declared independence in 1999 but is not
recognized internationally except by a few countries. Abkhazia together with Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh,
and South Ossetia are post-Soviet "frozen conflict" zones.
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