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The Sanigs (Greek: Σάνιγκι) were a tribe inhabiting historical Heniochia, northwest shore of Kingdom of Colchis. Their ethnic identity is obscure and is the subject of a controversy.^[1] They are first attested in the works of Pliny, Arrian^[2] and Memnon of Heraclea.

Historical territories of Heniokhet-Sanigeti (Sanigia) was divided into three parts:

• Old southern Heniochia, later coastal Abkhazia (which included the coastal zone from Sokhumi to Adler);
• Inner Heniochia (Sochi district);
• North Heniochia, later Jiketi of Abkhazia (Tuapsi region).

Sanigs inhabited the Inner Heniochia^[3]

Georgian scholars, as well as a number of foreign scholars,^[4] consider them to be Kartvelian people, such as Zans (ancestors of Mingrelian and Laz peoples) or proto-Svans.^[5] According to Arrian, they inhabited the area around Sebastopolis (modern Sokhumi). Roland Topchishvili links some modern Georgian surnames with the Sanigs (Sanikidze, Sanikiani, Sanigiani, Sanaia).^[6]

Abkhazians consider the Sanigs to be the ancestors of the Sadz and Zhaney, as evidenced by the territorial settlement of these peoples.^[7][8]