Akhalkalaki municipality
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| Country | Georgia | ||
| region | Samtskhe Javakheti | ||
| Seat | Akhalkalaki | ||
| surface | 1235 km² | ||
| Residents | 45,070 (2014) | ||
| density | 36 inhabitants per km² | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GE-SJ | ||
| Website | www.akhalkalaki.ge (Georgian, Russian) | ||
Coordinates: 41 ° 24 ' N , 43 ° 30' E
The municipality Akhalkalaki ( Georgian ახალქალაქის მუნიციპალიტეტი , Akhalkalakis munizipaliteti ) is an administrative unit (roughly equivalent to a district ) in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region in southern Georgia .
geography
The administrative center of the municipality is the eponymous town Akhalkalaki . The 1235 km² municipality borders in the west on the municipality Aspindsa , in the north on the municipality Borjomi and in the east on the municipality Ninozminda , which also all belong to the Samtskhe-Javakheti region, and in the northeast on the municipality Zalka of the Lower Cartlia region . The state border with Turkey runs in the south .
The municipality includes the western part of the Akhalkalaki plateau , also called the Javakheti plateau , at an altitude of 1800 to 2200 m above sea level . In the northeast it is bounded by the Samsara Mountains with the 3300 m high Didi Abuli and the 3285 m high Samsari. In the north, the border runs on the south bank of the outflowless Lake Tabazkuri and further west reaches the ridge of the Trialeti Mountains with its highest peak, Schawiklde ( 2850 m ). The state border with Turkey in the south is marked by a mountain ridge about 2800 m high; to the west of it lies the no- drain, cross-border Lake Karzachi (Aktaş Gölü). The Kura River ( Mtkvari in Georgian ) marks part of the border with Turkey and the municipality of Aspindsa in the southwest . The central part with the administrative center Akhalkalaki flows through its right tributary Parawniszqali .
In the south of the municipality, the Javakheti National Park extends in the mountains along the state border and around Lake Karzachi .
Population and administrative division
The population of 45,070 inhabitants (2014) has fallen by over a quarter compared to the previous census (60,945 inhabitants in 2002), which means that the population decline that began in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union continued at an accelerated rate. Before that, the population had been largely stable with slight fluctuations since at least the 1930s.
- Population development
Note: census data
Like the neighboring municipality of Ninozminda to the east, the municipality is almost exclusively inhabited by Armenians ; their share is 94.3%. Only 5.3% of the population are ethnic Georgians (as of 2002).
The largest villages besides the city of Akhalkalaki (8,295 inhabitants) are the villages Diliska , Kartikami , Kumurdo and Watschiani (2014), each with over 1500 inhabitants .
The municipality is divided into the independent capital Akhalkalaki and 21 municipalities (Georgian temi, თემი or simply "village", Georgian sopeli, სოფელი ) with a total of 64 localities:
| local community | Number of towns |
Population (2014) |
|---|---|---|
| Alastani | 3 | 1629 |
| Aragwa | 5 | 2760 |
| Asawreti | 4th | 2458 |
| Baraleti | 5 | 3310 |
| Chando | 1 | 1090 |
| Chaveti | 3 | 453 |
| Chospio | 4th | 1969 |
| Diliska | 1 | 2374 |
| Gogascheni | 2 | 432 |
| Kartikami | 6th | 4705 |
| Karzachi | 2 | 828 |
| Kotelia | 1 | 441 |
| Kochio | 6th | 2493 |
| Kumurdo | 2 | 2281 |
| Okami | 3 | 837 |
| Ptena | 1 | 242 |
| Sakwi | 6th | 3032 |
| Sulda | 4th | 1760 |
| Tschuntschcha | 1 | 324 |
| Turzchi | 1 | 759 |
| Watschiani | 3 | 2598 |
history
The area of the municipality lies in the historical region of Javakheti, which was co-governed by the independent state structure Samtskhe-Saatabago (Meshetia) after the collapse of the Kingdom of Georgia in the 16th century. A little later it was annexed by the Ottoman Empire . After the annexation of the area to the Russian Empire as a result of the Russo-Turkish War of 1828/29, it came to the Ujesd Akhaltsikhe of the Kutais governorate in 1846 , which passed to the Tbilisi governorate in 1867 . In 1874 the independent Ujesd Akhalkalaki was spun off, which existed until the early years of the Soviet Union .
In 1930 the Achalkalaki Rajon was expelled, which initially also included part of the later Aspindsa Rajon (now the municipality). After Georgia gained independence, the Rajon was assigned to the newly created Samtskhe-Javakheti region in 1995 and converted into a municipal authority in 2006.
traffic
The international road S11 runs through the municipality from Akhaltsikhe via Aspindsa and continues via Ninozminda to the Armenian border, also part of the European route 691 . The shortest connection to the capital Tbilisi is via Ninozminda . In Achalkalaki, the newly designated S13 branches off from the S11 to the Turkish border on the north bank of Lake Karzachi (border crossing further towards Çıldır ). Of Akhalkalaki north national road leads Sch20 ( შ 20 ) connecting the trialeti range in the direction Bakuriani - Bordschomi overcomes.
Achalkalaki has been the end point of a railway line on the Georgian Railway from Marabda (between Tbilisi and Marneuli ) via Tetrizqaro , Zalka and Ninozminda since the 1980s . The line was extensively modernized from 2007 onwards in order to be able to connect to the network of the Turkish State Railways through an extension to the Turkish State Railways network of the Turkish State Railways and to become part of the new rail connection between Azerbaijan and Kars , by an extension on the southeastern edge of the municipality at the new Achalkalaki freight and gauge changing station Turkey ( Baku – Tiflis – Kars ). The new section of the route crosses the border with Turkey southeast of Lake Karzachi. The 6 km long section from the new station to the old terminal station on the southern edge of the city of Akhalkalaki was dismantled.
Web links
- Website of the municipality Akhalkalaki (Georgian, Russian, partly English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Population Census 2014 ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ Population Census 2002 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
