By Vania Raebel | October 4, 2019
The Forgotten Land
Not a lot of people know about the Republic of Abkhazia, a partially-recognized Republic in northwestern Georgia. Though Russia, Venezuela, and a few other nations recognize it as a state, Georgia and most other United Nations members consider it as being part of Georgia.
While beautiful, the image of the abandoned home above is a chilling reminder of Abkhazia’s dark past. In the 1990s, it found itself in the middle of a bloody conflict that resulted in the ethnic cleansing of Georgians, and the displacement of around 250,000 people from their homes.
