Tetrizqaro
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Tetrizqaro თეთრიწყარო |
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 Georgia
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| Region : | Niederkartlien | ||
| Municipality : | Tetrizqaro | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 33 ' N , 44 ° 28' E | ||
| Residents : | 3,093 (2014) | ||
| Time zone : | Georgian Time (UTC + 4) | ||
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Tetrizqaro ( Georgian თეთრიწყარო , partly also Tetri Zqaro ; until 1991 Russian Тетри-Цкаро , Tetri-Zkaro ) is a small town in Georgia . It is the administrative seat of the municipality of Tetrizqaro , until 2006 Rajon .
The place name means "white spring". During the period when it belonged to the Russian Empire and then until the second half of the 20th century, the city was mostly inhabited by Russians and Armenians . The traditional Russian name of the city was Bely Klyuch, which is synonymous with the Georgian name. From the 1920s to 1940 (from 1930 for the Rajon), the Turkish-speaking name Agbulach (in modern Azerbaijani Ağbulaq ) was official due to the majority of the population in the region at that time - Bortschali , immediately south of it . In the course of the 20th century, the ethnic composition of the city and the area changed massively, so that today Tetrizqaro is an ethnically predominantly Georgian city; In the municipality, too, the Georgian share has risen from around 35% in 1939 to around 75% today.
Near Tetrizqaro is the village of Assureti , founded and formerly inhabited by Caucasian Germans under the name Elisabethtal (or Elisabeththal ).
