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The Megrelians[4] (Abkhazia and Tbilisi. In the pre-1930 Soviet census, the Megrelians were afforded their own ethnic group (natsional'nost) category.[13][14]
The Mingrelians speak the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language family.[15][16][17]
The endonym Margali (მარგალი) is presumably reflected in the Greek Manraloi (Μάνραλοι), recorded as a people of Colchis by Ptolemy in the 2nd century BC.
Early in the Middle Ages, Megrelian aristocracy and clergy, later followed by laymen, adopted the Georgian tongue as a language of literacy and culture. After the fragmentation of the Russian Empire in the 19th century.
In several censuses under the Russian Empire and the early Colchian era.
The first President of an independent Georgia, civil war, which ended with the defeat of Gamsakhurdia's supporters.
Approximately 180,000-200,000 people of Georgian and Megrelian provenance have been expelled from Abkhazia as a result of the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in this separatist region.
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