Suhumi

Sukhumi or Sokhumi is a metropolis at the Black Sea coast. It is the capital of the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia, which has managed it for the reason that 1992 to 93 warfare in Abkhazia, despite the fact that most of the global network considers it legally a part of Georgia. Sukhumi's history may be traced returned to the 6th century BC, when it was settled via Greeks, who named it Dioscurias. During this time and the subsequent Roman period, a good deal of the metropolis disappeared below the Black Sea.

The city was named Tskhumi while it became a part of the Kingdom of Abkhazia. Contested by using neighborhood princes, it became part of the Ottoman Empire inside the 1570s, where it remained until it was conquered via the Russian Empire in 1810. The records of the metropolis commenced inside the mid-6th century BC whilst an earlier agreement of the second and early first millennia BC, frequented with the aid of neighborhood Colchian tribes, changed into replaced via the Milesian Greek colony of Dioscurias. The city is stated to were so named for the Dioscuri, the twins Castor and Pollux of classical mythology.