Zalka municipality
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| Country | Georgia | ||
| region | Niederkartlien | ||
| Seat | Zalka | ||
| surface | 1051 km² | ||
| Residents | 18,849 (2014) | ||
| density | 18 inhabitants per km² | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GE-KK | ||
| Website | tsalka.gov.ge (Georgian) | ||
Coordinates: 41 ° 36 ' N , 44 ° 0' E
The municipality Zalka ( Georgian წალკის მუნიციპალიტეტი , Zalkis munizipaliteti ) is an administrative unit (roughly equivalent to a district ) in the Niederkartlien region in the southern central part of Georgia .
geography
The administrative center of the municipality is the small town of Zalka . The 1,050.6 square kilometers municipality is bordered to the east by the municipality Tetritsqaro and on the southeast by the municipality Dmanisi , both also in the region Kvemo Kartli, from southwest to northwest on the municipalities municipality Ninotsminda , Akhalkalaki and Borjomi in the region Samtskhe-Javakheti and in North to the municipality of Gori and on a short section in the northeast to the municipality of Kaspi , both in the Inner Kartli region .
The municipality located west-southwest of the Georgian capital Tbilisi covers the territory of the 1500 m to 1700 m high Zalka Plateau and the adjacent mountain ranges. In the north this is the Trialeti Mountains , which with the Ardschewani ( 2758 m ) has the highest peak on this section. The northern part of the Samsara Mountains occupies the west ; the 3285 m high summit of the eponymous Samsari lies a little outside the territory of the municipality, already in the municipality Akhalkalaki, on the border further north there is a 3194 m high nameless summit, and in particular around the Samsari caldera there are further three thousand meter peaks . Further to the east, the northern end of the Javakheti Mountains with the 2661 m high Dalidag protrudes into the municipality; the mountain ranges in the southeast and east reach almost 2000 m above sea level.
The Zalka plateau is traversed by the Kura tributary Chrami , which is also known as the Kzia in the upper reaches , is dammed up at Zalka to form the Zalka reservoir and further below, in the southeast part of the municipality, it crosses the narrow Trialeti gorge.
Population and administrative division
With 19,141 inhabitants (2014), the number of inhabitants has only decreased slightly compared to the previous census (20,888 inhabitants 2002) compared to the national average. In the 1990s, however, after the collapse of the Soviet Union , the population had more than halved, in particular due to the emigration of many Pontic Greeks , who had their main settlement area there.
- Population development
Note: census data. Mass emigration of Greeks in the 1990s (1989: 27,127).
In the meantime, Armenians form the largest population group in the municipality with 55%. Greeks still make up 22% (in 1989 61%), Georgians only come in third place with 12%, ahead of Azerbaijanis with 10% (as of 2002).
The largest villages next to the city of Zalka (2326 inhabitants) with over 750 inhabitants each are the predominantly Armenian settled villages Aschkala , Kisil-Kilissa and Nardewani as well as the largest Greek village Awranlo (2014).
The municipality is divided into 30 municipalities with a total of 44 localities. The municipalities for the city of Zalka and the two minor cities (Georgian დაბა , daba ) Bediani and Trialeti are referred to as the “territorial organ ” (Georgian teritoriuli organo, ტერიტორიული ორგანო ), otherwise here with only one village mostly simply as a “village” (Georgian sopeli, სოფელი ), if there are several localities, Georgian temi, თემი :
| local community | Number of towns |
Population (2014) |
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| Aiasmi | 1 | 415 |
| Arjewan-Sarwani | 3 | 660 |
| Arziwani | 1 | 485 |
| Ash scale | 1 | 960 |
| Awranlo | 1 | 789 |
| Bareti | 4th | 1043 |
| Bediani 1 | 2 | 226 |
| Berta | 1 | 152 |
| Beschtascheni | 3 | 856 |
| Burnasheti | 1 | 305 |
| Chando | 1 | 184 |
| Khachkovi | 1 | 554 |
| Darakowi | 1 | 588 |
| Daschbashi | 1 | 295 |
| Gantiadi | 1 | 583 |
| Gumbati | 1 | 479 |
| Kaburi | 1 | 298 |
| Kisil-Kilissa | 1 | 1252 |
| Kochta | 3 | 637 |
| Kuschi | 1 | 532 |
| Nardewani | 1 | 1055 |
| Osni | 1 | 485 |
| Recha | 1 | 328 |
| Sameba | 1 | 693 |
| Saqdrioni | 1 | 567 |
| Tedschisi | 1 | 243 |
| Trialeti 1 | 2 | 634 |
| Chivt-Kilissa | 2 | 392 |
| Zalka 2 | 2 | 2874 |
| Zinzqaro | 2 | 285 |
history
After the disintegration of the medieval Kingdom of Georgia in the 16th century, the area of the municipality belonged to the independent Kingdom of Kartlien , then to the unified Kartlien- Kakheti in 1762 . During the affiliation to the Russian Empire from 1801 it formed the northwestern part of the Ujezds Bortschali in the Tbilisi Governorate , which was predominantly inhabited by Armenians, Azerbaijanis (in the time like other Turkic-speaking ethnic groups called Tatars ) and Greeks, whereby the historical landscape of the same name was only inhabited by the occupied the southern part of the Ujesd.
After the Ujesd continued to exist in the early years of the Soviet Union , the independent Zalka Rajon was spun off in 1930 . From 1963 to 1965 the Rajon was temporarily dissolved and its area was added to the east adjoining Rajon Tetrizqaro (Russified Tetri-Zkaro ). After Georgia gained independence, the Rajon was assigned to the newly formed Lower Cartlian Region in 1995 and transformed into a municipality in 2006.
traffic
From east to southwest the municipality is crossed by the national road Sch31 ( შ 31 ), which begins on the international trunk road S6 between Tbilisi and Marneuli and continues to Ninozminda . From Zalka in a south-easterly direction through the Trialeti Gorge, the national road Sch33 ( შ 33 ) runs in the direction of Tetrizqaro –Marneuli. Road connections to the north via the Trialeti Mountains into the Inner Cartelian Plain and to the west into the Kura Valley in the Borjomi - Bakuriani area do not exist.
Also from the southeast over Zalka to the southwest, the railway runs Marabda- Akhalkalaki the Georgian Railway . Opened in the 1980s track was modernized from 2007 to by extension the Turkish Kars connection to the network of the Turkish State Railways to acquire and part of the new rail link between Azerbaijan and Turkey ( Baku-Tbilisi-Kars to be).
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Zalka (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)
