Ubykhia

Ubykhia IPA| [uˈbɪhɪ.ə] was a commonwealth of Ubykh tribes in the 14th-19th centuries. It was situated in what is today Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia.

Ubykhs supplanted the Sadz Abkhazians from the area in the 17th century.

Unlike the principality of Abkhazia, there were no princes in Ubykhia and it was governed by the council, which represented the nobles from all 11 Ubykh subdivisions and 2 from Akhchipsou and Sadz peoples, incorporated to the commonwealth.

In 1864 Ubykhia was defeated in Russo-Circassian War and the population, estimated 40,000, fled to the Ottoman Empire "en masse"

References

* [http://www.circassianlibrary.org/lib/html/Shinkuba-The_Last_of_the_Departed/contents.html Bagrat Shinkuba. "The Last of the Departed" on Adyghe Library]
* [http://www.olympicgenocide.org/ubykhs.html "The Ubykhs" T. Tatlok] - history, map.