The article stresses that the Abkhazian principality, formerly being the frontier community of the Byzantium, was transformed into a domain of the signorial type. It was created on the initiative of its ruler, Leo II, who was a "strategos", "Eristavi". This principality became the basis of the "Kingdom of the Abkhazians". The "Abkhazian Kingdom" was characterized by features of the seignorial system both in state and church life. It must be assumed that a developed feudal society existed in this kingdom.
