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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of western Georgia on the Black Sea west-northwest of Tbilisi. The administrative capital of the republic of Abkhazia, it is the center of an Abkhazian secessionist movement.

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Examples

  • Kim opened the notebook again and looked at the picture of the bathhouse in Sokhumi again.

    The Stolen CELIA THOMSON 2003

  • It is one of the old sulfur bath complexes in Sokhumi.

    The Stolen CELIA THOMSON 2003

  • Kim opened the notebook again and looked at the picture of the bathhouse in Sokhumi again.

    The Stolen CELIA THOMSON 2003

  • It is one of the old sulfur bath complexes in Sokhumi.

    The Stolen CELIA THOMSON 2003

  • Sokhumi is the city where our pride eventually settled after we left the Middle East for good.

    The Stolen CELIA THOMSON 2003

  • Sokhumi is the city where our pride eventually settled after we left the Middle East for good.

    The Stolen CELIA THOMSON 2003

  • Administrative divisions: 2 autonomous republics (avtomnoy respubliki, singular - avtom respublika); Abkhazia (Sokhumi), Ajaria (Bat'umi) note: the administrative centers of the autonomous republics are included in parentheses; there are no oblasts - the rayons around

    The 1995 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • Administrative divisions: 2 autonomous republics (avtomnoy respubliki, singular - avtom respublika); Abkhazia (Sokhumi), Ajaria

    The 1996 CIA Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • Moscow, however, contends that Russian airlines are justified in flying to Sokhumi since Russia has recognized Abkhazia as a sovereign state, said Irakli Giviashvili, director of the ministry's International Legal Department.

    EurasiaNet 2010

  • The announced plans for the Sokhumi airport would seem to be in keeping with that interest.

    EurasiaNet 2010

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