Qasbegi Municipality
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| Country | Georgia | ||
| region | Mtskheta-Mtianeti | ||
| Seat | Stepantsminda | ||
| surface | 1082 km² | ||
| Residents | 3795 (2014) | ||
| density | 3.5 inhabitants per km² | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GE-MM | ||
| Website | www.kazbegi.gov.ge (Georgian) | ||
Coordinates: 42 ° 36 ' N , 44 ° 36' E
The Qasbegi municipality ( Georgian ყაზბეგის მუნიციპალიტეტი , Qasbegis munizipaliteti ) is an administrative unit (roughly equivalent to a district ) in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region in northern Georgia .
geography
The administrative center of the municipality is the minor city (Georgian დაბა , daba ) Stepantsminda . The 1081.7 km² municipality borders in the east and southeast on the municipality Dusheti and in the southwest de jure with the municipality Akhalgori , both also in the region Mzcheta-Mtianeti, and in the west de jure with the municipality Dschawa of the Inner Cartilia region . The latter two are independent on the territory of de facto, internationally recognized by only a few States Republic of South Ossetia , where they are accordingly as Rajon Leningor and Rajon dsau referred. In the north, the municipality is bounded by the state border with Russia , with the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in the western part and the Republic of Ingushetia in the east.
The majority of the municipality is located north of the watershed ridge of the Greater Caucasus and, assuming that the inner Eurasian border runs there, already belongs to Europe . This area occupies the valleys of the Terek , which flows north, from its source through the Trusso Gorge to the Darial Gorge and its tributaries there. The watershed ridge in the area of the municipality - also called Mtiuleti ridge there - is over 3800 m high in the western part (Lasgziti, 3877 m ), sinks in the middle section at the Cross Pass , the lowest pass in the central Caucasus, to 2379 m and rises in the East with the Northern Tschauchi again up to 3843 m above sea level.
In the north, the municipality along the state border with Russia is framed by the significantly higher actual Caucasus main ridge, which, however, is interrupted by the Darial Gorge of the Terek, which is cut to about 1200 m . To the west of this the ridge is mostly over 4000 m high and culminates in the 5047 m high Kazbek , the easternmost five-thousand- meter peak in the Caucasus; east of the Terek is reached with the Schan 4452 m . In the area of the Cross Pass, a small part of the municipality with the resort of Gudauri extends into the uppermost section of the valley of the White or Mtiuleti-Aragwi, the right source river of the Aragwi on the southern flank of the Mtiuleti ridge.
Population and administrative division
With 3,795 inhabitants (2014), the number of inhabitants fell by over a quarter compared to the previous census (5,261 inhabitants in 2002), well above the national average. The population had been falling steadily since at least the 1930s (10,183 inhabitants in 1939).
- Population development
Note: census data
The municipality is almost exclusively inhabited by Georgians (97.7%); 1.7% are Ossetians and 0.3% Russians (as of 2002).
The largest localities besides the minor town Stepantsminda (1326 inhabitants) are the villages of Arscha , Garbani , Sioni and Sno (2014) with over 200 inhabitants each .
The municipality is divided into 6 municipalities (referred to as the "territorial organ " for the minority town, Georgian teritoriuli organo, ტერიტორიული ორგანო , for the village communities as temi, თემი ) with a total of 46 villages, of which 21 have no permanent residents:
| local community | Number of towns |
Population (2014) |
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| Goriskikhe | 5 | 594 |
| Gudauri | 6 1 | 89 |
| Kobi | 18 2 | 29 |
| Sioni | 7 3 | 1196 |
| Sno | 7 4 | 542 |
| Stepantsminda 5 | 3 | 1345 |
history
The area of the municipality essentially corresponds to the historical-geographical region Chewi , which after the collapse of the medieval Kingdom of Georgia in the 16th century belonged to the independent Kingdom of Kartlien and then to the unified Kartlien- Kakhetien in 1762 . While it belonged to the Russian Empire from 1801, it formed the northern part of the Ujesds Duscheti in the Tbilisi Governorate , which continued into the early years of the Soviet Union . In 1930, the independent Qasbegi Rajon was spun off in today's borders , corresponding to the name of the main town, which was renamed in the 1920s after the writer Aleksandre Qasbegi (1848-1893) who was born there. After Georgia gained independence, the Rajon was assigned to the newly formed Mtskheta-Mtianeti region in 1995 and converted into a municipality in 2006. In 2006 the capital was given its historical name Stepantsminda again, but the administrative unit is still called Qasbegi.
traffic
The international trunk road S3 , also European route 117 , coming from the capital Tbilisi or the nearby Mtskheta , runs through the municipality to the Russian border. It follows the course of the historic Georgian Military Road from the Aragvi Valley over the Cross Pass and along the Terek through the Darial Gorge. Above Stepantsminda, the national road Sch147 ( შ 147 ) branches off, which follows the right Terek tributary Snoszqali to the highest village in the valley, Dschuta.
Web links
- Website of Qasbegi Municipality (Georgian)
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)
