Original: This situation was mirrored in Abkhazia , an Autonomous Republic within Georgia in the USSR , where the Abkhazian minority seceded from Georgia in a war in the early 1990s . Similar to South Ossetia , most of Abkhazia was controlled by an unrecognised government , while Georgia controlled other parts .
Simplified: South Ossetia and Abkhazia are territories within Georgia that declared independence from Georgia and have been acting in a de facto independent capacity since the early 1990s .