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- noun Plural form of
Mingrelian .
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The Turks have only a few slaves for the interior service of their houses, and these they purchase from the Circassians, Mingrelians, and nations of Lesser Tartary.
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It is familiar among the Mingrelians, a people professing Christianity, to bury their children alive without scruple.
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It is familiar among the Mingrelians, a people professing Christianity, to bury their children alive without scruple.
God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005
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Others are smaller and obscure, such as the Ingush, the Ossetes, the Avars, the Abkhaz, the Balkars, the Kalmyks, the Mingrelians, and the Meskhetian Turks.
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Others are smaller and obscure, such as the Ingush, the Ossetes, the Avars, the Abkhaz, the Balkars, the Kalmyks, the Mingrelians, and the Meskhetian Turks.
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Others are smaller and obscure, such as the Ingush, the Ossetes, the Avars, the Abkhaz, the Balkars, the Kalmyks, the Mingrelians, and the Meskhetian Turks.
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The Mingrelians, too, like their neighbours whom we have just quitted, are incurably given to indolence, except in the making of wine from their abundant vineyards; otherwise they are content to live on the produce of their orchards, prolific through the interposition of a beneficent Providence rather than to any agricultural diligence on their part.
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The Mingrelians are closely akin to the Georgians.
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Among the Mingrelians and the Circassians, where women
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Abyssinians consecrate with leavened bread except on Holy Thursday and the twelfth day of June, and the Mingrelians use all kinds of bread, their hosts being usually made of flour mixed with water and wine.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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