Stuart 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“
Andropov, New Challenge to the West, by Arnold Beichman, Mikhail S. Bernstam, p 116: „Georgia consists of three ethnics tribes: Imeretians, Kartvels, and Mingrelians.“
