Suku Mingrelia
Kelompok etnis
Suku Megrelia[4] (Megrelia: მარგალი, margali; bahasa Georgia: მეგრელები: megrelebi) atau Mingrelians adalah sebuah sub-kelompok etnis orang Georgia[5][6][7][8][9][10] yang banyak tinggal di kawasan Samegrelo, Georgia. Mereka juga tinggal dalam jumlah menonjol di Abkhazia dan Tbilisi.
| Jumlah populasi | |
|---|---|
| k. 400,000[1] | |
| Daerah dengan populasi signifikan | |
 Georgia 400,000[1][2] | |
 Rusia | 600 (2010)[3] |
| Bahasa | |
| Mingrelia, Georgia, Rusia | |
| Agama | |
| Umumnya † Gereja Ortodoks Timur (Gereja Ortodoks Georgia) | |
CatatanSunting
- ^ a b Joshuaproject. Margaluri, Mingrelian of Georgia
- ^ Termasuk Abkhazia, dimana terdapat 46,000 Megrel dan Georgia
- ^ Russian census 2010
- ^ Juga disebut Mingrelia, Mingrel, atau Megrel
- ^ Stuart J. Kaufman Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War, p 86: «Additionally, the Georgian category includes an array of politically important subgroups especially Mingrelians, Svans and Ajarians»
- ^ Kevin Tuite The Meaning of Dæl. Symbolic and Spatial Associations of the South Caucasian Goddess of Game Animals. Université de Montréal.
- ^ Tunç Aybak Politics of the Black Sea: Dynamics of Cooperation and Conflict, p 185: «...Georgians (Megrels)...»
- ^ Andropov, New Challenge to the West, by Arnold Beichman, Mikhail S. Bernstam, p 116: «Georgia consists of three ethnics tribes: Imeretians, Kartvels, and Mingrelians .»
- ^ Small Nations and Great Powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, by Svante E. Cornell, p 142
- ^ Political Construction Sites: Nation-building in Russia and the Post-Soviet World, by Pål Kolstø, p 8
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Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Mingrelians.
- Stephen F. Jones. Mingrelians. World Culture Encyclopedia.