The terms "Abkhazia" and "Abkhazians" were used in a broad sense during this period – and for some while later – and covered, for all practical purposes, all the population of the kingdom regardless of their ethnicity.
Begreppen "Abchazien" och "abchazer" användes i vid bemärkelse under denna period, och viss tid framöver, och betecknade kungadömets hela befolkning oberoende av etnicitet.