Համշէնահայ համայնքը Վրաստանում 1918-1920 թթ.
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2006
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After the proclamation of independence in the Republic of Georgia, the status of the Sukhumi (Abkhazia) and Sochi districts of Georgia, on the western shore of the Black Sea, was not resolved. Alongside the interests of Georgian central government, the interests of the White Russian army, the local ethnic Abkhazians and the Red Army elements generated a dynamics which turned the region into an unstable political entity.
The control of this strategic land put these powers in conflict with each other, endangering the status and interests of the local Armenian minority too.
The author highlights the ups and downs of the Armenian community in the region and the margin of manouvering they had in safeguarding their interests. The community was faced with dilemma. Their choice was either Georgian naturalization, which would grant them landholding rights, or Armenian citizenship and repatriation, which would free them from conscription in the Georgian army.
Furthermore, the border conflict between Armenia and Georgia negatively affected the local Armenians in December 1918. The shortlived consulate of the Republic of Armenia, inaugurated in November 1919, could not be of much help either. Things took a different turn with the Sovietization of this region of the Caucasus.
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Մայիլեան, Բ., «Համշէնահայ համայնքը Վրաստանում 1918-1920 թթ.», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2006, Պէյրութ, էջ 157-193