Akhalgori Municipality
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| Country | Georgia | ||
| region | Mtskheta-Mtianeti | ||
| Seat | Akhalgori | ||
| surface | 1011 km² | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GE-MM | ||
Coordinates: 42 ° 6 ' N , 44 ° 30' E
The municipality Akhalgori ( Georgian ახალგორის მუნიციპალიტეტი , Achalgoris munizipaliteti ) is de jure / de facto a municipality in the Georgian region of Mtskheta-Mtianeti . De facto, the territory belongs to the Republic of South Ossetia , which is not under Georgian control and is recognized by only a few states. South Ossetia regards the area as Leningor Rajon ( Ossetian Ленингоры район , Leningory rajon ; Russian Ленингорский район , Leningorski rajon ), one of its four Rajons .
The administrative seat of the municipality is the settlement Akhalgori (called Leningor in South Ossetia ; in the Soviet period also in Georgian Leningori ). The area is 1011 km².
According to the 2002 census, the municipality (in the Georgian-controlled part at that time) had 7,703 inhabitants, in 2015 according to South Ossetian data it was 4,209 in the entire Rajon. In 2002, Georgians made up 84.6% of the population, most of them from the Area fled, and 14.4% Ossetians . In 1939 the share of Georgians was still 38.8%, the share of Ossetians 57.3%.
After the population of the area had already declined continuously during its membership of the South Dossetian Autonomous Region of the Georgian SSR of the Soviet Union until 1989/1990 and had in fact halved, this tendency was reinforced by the following clashes in the context of the South Ossetian-Georgian conflict, so that there today less than a fifth of the population as of 1939 is alive.
- Population development
Note: census data. Until 1989 Leningori district of the South Ossetian Autonomous Region . 2015 South Ossetian-controlled Leningor Raion.
Until the Caucasus War in August 2008, the larger, eastern part of the municipality, including the city of Akhalgori - the valley of the Ksani and its tributaries known as the Ksani Gorge - was under Georgian control, a smaller part in the southwest - the Lechura Gorge and in the extreme southwest the edge of the Inner Cartlian Plain - was under the control of the South Ossetian separatists. The village of Zinagar (Georgian Zinagari ), located on the plain, served as the provisional administrative center for the administration of the South Ossetian government. Since August 2008 the Rajon has been completely under South Ossetian control.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Press conference of the head of the South Ossetian statistical agency . Report from the South Ossetian Res news agency dated August 11, 2016, accessed on April 27, 2017.
- ^ Ethnic groups by major administrative-territorial units. Statistics Georgia, archived from the original on August 31, 2006 ; accessed on May 13, 2015 .
- ↑ http://www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru/rnsossetia.html
