Suku Mingrelia

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|group      = Megrelia  'Margalepi  Megrelebi|image      =
|population = k. 400,000Joshuaproject. Margaluri, Mingrelian of Georgia
|popplace   =  400,000Termasuk Abkhazia, dimana terdapat 46,000 Megrel dan Georgia
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|pop1       = 600 (2010)Russian census 2010
|languages  = Mingrelia, Georgia, Rusia
|religions  = Umumnya † Gereja Ortodoks Timur(Gereja Ortodoks Georgia)
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Suku MingreliaJuga disebut Mingrelian, Mingrelia, Mingrel, atau Megrel (; : Megrelebi) adalah subetnis dari bangsa Kolkhian-Zan, yang merupakan bagian dari masyarakat Georgia atau Kartevlia yang lebih luasStuart 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 142Political Construction Sites: Nation-building in Russia and the Post-Soviet World, by Pål Kolstø, p 8
yang umumnya tinggal di Mkhare (Region) Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia bagian barat, di pesisir Laut Tengah. Samgrelo merupakan tanah air suku Mingrelia. Selain itu, dalam jumlah yang cukup besar, mereka dapat dijumpai di beberapa daerah di Abkhazia.

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 Referensi 

 Stephen F. Jones. Mingrelians. World Culture Encyclopedia''.

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