Bedia (village)
Village in Abkhazia, Georgia
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Bedia (Georgian: ბედია; Abkhaz: Бедиа) is a village in the Gali Municipality/Tkvarcheli District of Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. As a result of the Georgian dispute over the sovereignty of Abkhazia, Georgia claims the village as part of its Gali Municipality. As of 2011, the village had a population of 288, of which 85.5% were ethnic Georgians and 13.6% were ethnic Abkhaz, with 2 others living in the village.[2]
History
According to the medieval Georgian Chronicles, Egros, son of Togarmah, inherited the land between the Likhi Range, Black Sea and upper Khazar River where he settled and found a city Egrisi, which is now called Bedia.
