Gali district

Location of Gali Raion within the Republic of Abkhazia

The Rajon Gali ( Abkhazian Гал араион , Gal araion ; Russian Галский район , Galski rajon ; Georgian გალის რაიონი , Galis Raioni ) is a Rajon ( district ) in the Republic of Abkhazia, which is internationally recognized by only a few countries . The capital of the Rajons is the city of the same name Gali .

population

Almost 30,000 people lived in Gali Rajon in 2011, the vast majority of whom are ethnic Georgians and Mingrelians . Only in the village of Primorsk do non-Georgian population groups make up a significant proportion of the population.

In Gali Raion the population has decreased significantly compared to 1989 - before the beginning of the Abkhaz-Georgian conflict - as in the whole of Abkhazia, but the ethnic composition of the population has changed less than in other parts of the area (data from 1989 in the then Boundaries; the Rajon was about a third larger):

Ethnicity	1989	Proportion of (%)	2003	Proportion of (%)	2011	Proportion of (%)
Georgians (and Mingrelians )	74,712	93.8	28,919	98.74	29,813	98.21
Abkhazians	627	0.8	121	0.41	208	0.69
Russians	2480	3.1	159	0.54	188	0.62
Armenians	530	0.7	14th	0.05	26th	0.09
Ukrainians	600	0.8	25th	0.05	21st	0.07
Greeks	224	0.3	10	0.03	11	0.03
Other	515	0.6	39	0.13	89	0.29
total	79,688	100.00	29,287	100.00	30,356	100.00

Location of Gali Municipality within Georgia

Municipality and district

According to Georgian law, which is ineffective in Abkhazia, the area within the borders from 1994 has been the municipality of Gali (Georgian გალის მუნიციპალიტეტი , Galis munizipaliteti ) of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia since 2006 . It corresponds to the Gali Rajon plus the areas around eight villages added to the newly created Tkuartschal Rajon in 1994 by the Abkhaz authorities and around three villages given to the Otschamtschira Rajon in 1995 . According to Abkhazian law, which is effective in Abkhazia, the Gali Rajon is administered by a de facto district administration in the city of Gali (3). This is located at Confederation Street 2 (Russian Uliza Konfederatov No. 2) in Gali next to the city's post office. The administration has been headed since 2014 by Temur Khukhudowitsch Nadaraia, who, by presidential decree of the de facto President of the Republic of Abkhazia Raul Khajimba, has been in charge of business there from November 14, 2014.

Web links

Commons : Rajon / Municipality of Gali  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Census data 1886–2013 for what is now Abkhazia (Russian)
2. ↑ Share of Georgians in the population of Abkhazia by location (map, Russian)

3. http://apsny-gal.com/administratsiya/

Coordinates: 42 ° 30 '  N , 41 ° 39'  E