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along the Abkhazian coastline in the 14th century, but they functioned for a short time. When the Georgian kingdom was embroiled in a bitter civil war in the 1450s, the Sharvashidzes joined a major rebellion against King George VIII of Georgia, which saw him defeated at the hands of the rebels at Chikhori in 1463. The victorious king of Imereti created a principality (samtavro) for each of his allies, thus the Principality of Abkhazia was founded. The

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