Some Remarks on the Term Abxāz in Classical Persian Literature and Historiography

Abstract

This article is devoted to the analysis of the occurrences of the term Abxāz in Classical Persian literature and Iranian historiography. Under the term Abxāz, generally, Persian poets and writers implied the whole territory of Georgia and not only proper Abkhazia located on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. New points have been made about the word tamūk in Luγat-i furs by Asadī Ṭūsī, as well as the Abkhaz language, based on a quatrain (rubā‘ī) by Xāqānī.