- Svan tower. 8th century.
Svans — formerly Soani, a mountain tribe on the southwestern slopes of the Caucasus Range above Dioscurias, ancestors of the modern Svans, an ethnographic group of the Georgian people living in Svaneti.
VARIANT NAMES: Latin. Suani, Suanenses, Suanetes, Sunni, Suaui, Greek. Σουαναι, Σοανες, Σουαβοι, Σουαννοι, Russian. Svanentsy, Svanety, Svannokolkhi, Svanny, Svany.
Sources:
Ethnogenesis of the Abkhazians. D.A. Arshba, 2015