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Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Mingrelians
- Ethnic group.image
- Kartvelian languages.svg
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Distribution of Mingrelian in relation to the other Kartvelian languages
- Ethnic group.popplace
- Georgia 400,000
- Ethnic group.languages
- Mingrelian, Georgian
- Ethnic group.religions
- Predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christianity (Georgian Orthodox Church)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Notable Mingrelians
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
thumb|A Mingrelian ()
The Mingrelians (; ) are an indigenous Kartvelian-speaking ethnic subgroup of Georgians that mostly live in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti (; ) region of Georgia. They also live in considerable numbers in Abkhazia and Tbilisi. In the pre-1930 Soviet census, the Mingrelians were afforded their own ethnic group category, alongside many other ethnic subgroups of Georgians.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mingrelians” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.