Akhalgori
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Akhalgori ახალგორი Ленингор |
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 Georgia
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| Region : |
Mzcheta-Mtianeti (in fact South Ossetia )  |
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| Municipality : | Akhalgori | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 7 ' N , 44 ° 29' E | ||
| Height : | 820 m. ü. M. | ||
| Residents : | 2,500 (2002) | ||
| Time zone : |
de jure : Tbilisi time ( UTC + 4 ) de facto: Moscow time ( UTC + 3 ) |
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Location in South Ossetia |
Akhalgori ( Russian / Ossetian Ленингор / Leningor ; Georgian ახალგორი ) is a town in the south-east of the Republic of South Ossetia (de jure part of Georgia ) with around 2500 inhabitants (2002), which is internationally recognized by only a few countries .
geography
The place is located on the southern flank of the Greater Caucasus , on the left (eastern) valley side of the Ksani River, about 30 km above its mouth in the Kura , and 50 km as the crow flies northwest of the Georgian capital Tbilisi .
From the point of view of Georgia, the place is the administrative center of the Achalgori Rajons of the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region (while the greater part of South Ossetia belongs to the Inner Cartilia region) and lies a good 35 km northwest of its capital, Mtskheta . The South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali is 45 km to the west as the crow flies. In the South Ossetian administrative structure, the Rajon is referred to as Leningor Rajon .
history
The name "Akhalgori" comes from the Georgian terms for "new" (ახალი / achali) and "hill / mountain" (გორა / gora). From 1934 to 1990 the place, which belonged to the Autonomous Region of Ossetia at that time, was called Leningori , named after the leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917 Lenin . In 1960 the former village was given urban-type settlement status .
After South Ossetia declared itself independent in the course of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1990, Georgian militias invaded. The Georgian central authorities renamed the place again in 1992 to Akhalgori and incorporated the place and the entire surrounding Rajon on the periphery of South Ossetia into the newly created Mtskheta-Mtianeti region. A large part of this area was under the control of the central government from 1991 until it was captured by Russian troops and South Ossetian militias on August 17, 2008 during the Caucasus conflict and has been under their administration ever since.
- Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1959 | 1584 |
| 1970 | 1917 |
| 1979 | 2457 |
| 1989 | 2791 |
| 2002 | 2500 |
Note : census data (2002 rounded)
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