[1][2] Another origin hypothesis, which is more prevalent,[3] is that Africans were first brought to Abkhazia through the Ottoman slave trade in the 17th or 18th centuries, having been purchased by Abkhazian royals.

[7] During the Siege of Tkvarcheli operation in the 1992–1993 war, Georgian troops destroyed the three villages which had Afro-Abkhazian communities: Adzyubzha, Kindigh, and Tamsh.

[8] Historically, the few scattered African communities in the Black Sea region were geographically isolated and unknown by the broader public.

[10] In 1923, journalist Zinaida Richter visited a Black village near Sukhumi and reported on her expedition in the Moscow newspaper Izvestia.

Foreign periodicals also covered the subject in 1925 and 1931, when anthropologist B. Adler publicized his research in The New York Times, in which he described small Black settlements whose inhabitants were of relatively unmixed ancestry.